Yibbet Turman emerged from a small house on a busy street in an preternaturally safe suburb. She was raised on a diet of Simon and Garfunkel, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George Orwell. Early experiments in truth included: roly-poly observation, playground gymnastics, Arctic role playing, simulated subterranean microeconomics, and the formation of secret and not-so-secret societies of all kinds.
Today, under the more official name Elizabeth Schurman, she writes Serious essays and fiction, to the extent that life itself is Serious, and less Serious blog postings, in the cracks of the schedule of the manic-depressive carnival of a cheerful “urban core” high school where she teaches English, rather than “language arts,” because that is too many syllables and gives off a fake scent of modernity.
She hides from the world in a top secret, ancient-for-its-location (midwestern city) carriage house, and squirrels and schemes to regularly get to New York (the capital of many things), or out of the United States to see what everyone else is up to, and has been up to, for the last 5,000 years.
Sometimes she experiments with outrageously long sentences, as well. This may be a side effect of reading a lot of books written more than a hundred years ago.
Adventures also appear at presentmagazine.com and appear in the Kansas City Star and at Kansascity.com as part of their Faith Walk series during the 2010-11 cycle. And she writes a little art criticism for Review, at ereview.org. But enough about us.
BONUS MATERIAL:
Many years ago, the company begun by a man with a small moustache (but certainly not Hitler) created a series of films that sent viewers right into the jaws of nature, sometimes quite literally and other times merely symbolically. (Some people called this man a fascist and a flimsy anti-intellectual, but others believed him to be the world’s most enthusiastic and successful installation artist.) It is in this spirit, that of a commitment to storytelling, beauty, drama, and authenticity, that these latter-day True Life Adventures are presented.
Serendipidy led me to your blog. After reading Janet Sunderland’s blog today, I glanced right at a list and saw what I think is a name from the past at GHTC and EFM. If you are the one, “Hello, good to read you.” If this is not my fomer (sometimes) classmate from EFM, sorry to intrude. Jim Fox
Yep, it’s me, Jim. Good to hear from you. I’ll be an EFM senior next year! Hope you’re doing well.
Hi, thanks for the blog link. I could absolutly hear your voice in your Yibbet Turman intro. Delightful! Look for ward to the reads.
be Well
Randy