I finally got around to looking at some of my Christmas cards just today and I apologize that I am not one of those people that goes and sends them out – my mind is too disorganized and works on its own schedule, so holiday traditions that need forethought and preparation are delegated to another […]
Michael Jackson was on “60 Minutes” being interviewed by Ed Bradley and the most shocking thing about it was Ed Bradley wears an earring! It is a tasteful and small gold hoop in his left ear, I believe, because they did seem to try to hide it, so you might think that he’s sporting an […]
I had avoided, averted, excused myself, gave rain checks, and procrastinated as much as I possibly could, in viewing the film “Bamboozled.” This is the brilliant Spike Lee film starring lots of heroes, friends, acquaintances, a bizarre one night stand (which I will not go into) and my very favorite actor/artist/activist/educator/healer/shaman Danny Hoch in a […]
Dear Mr. Michael Moore, I have watched you for many years and have been a longtime fan. Your work has inspired me on many levels, as well as taught me incredible lessons about how the world works and how one person is able to change it. The risks you take, professional and personal, what most […]
Olvera St. on Christmas Eve with my family was a cross- cultural treat. We ordered too many tamales and passed on the pan dulce. We watched the slightly abbreviated version of Las Posadas, as it was near drizzling, which in LA is not unlike a snowstorm. We felt brave and bracingly hip, bought belts with […]
Thank you my teacher, my friend, the world, everyone, everything. I have summed it up for myself and for you as easily as I can. I know my words can be lengthy and my letters cumbersome, for the knowledge you give me so effortlessly, is almost like holding the whole school in my hand. Quickly […]
A friend told me about her friend’s ex-boyfriend’s grounds for dismissal, which were his odd prejudiced views and the odder ways they would be expressed. For example, “We cannot go see the fireworks display there on the Fourth of July because that place is 70% Mexican” and he was not kidding, that it was not […]
I am an overreacher. I am and have always been. It is not a function of my nature, which is probably less ambitious and more prone to lying in the pool of sunlight as my blonde dog Bronwyn is so fond of doing. I look at her, past my storyboards, dress dummy flocked with aging […]
Thank you Jess, for the topic today. Jess is a young woman with an amazing mind and is a person who makes me really trust that our future will be secure and we will not blow ourselves up and forever have to live in a really dusty plain where we have to build walls with […]
I awoke with a start, the remnants of a nightmare still sizzling through the rotisserie of my head. I was backstage at the benefit concert that I will be performing at in January, the one for Moveon.org, and Moby and David Bowie were moving on.org about, and then a long standing dear friend of mine, […]
Okay, we got him. Under the Styrofoam, beneath the rug, in a spider hole, and he came out looking like a crazy homeless man, or former President James Garfield, however you choose to see it. Saddam Hussein is caught, in what might have well been a grave, because he was lying underneath the earth breathing […]
Just a brief thought today. It has been a turbulent week for me for many reasons. I have illuminated some of it for you in the writings here. I am very grateful for those who allow me the honor of being read. It is something I cannot even express in words – I love you, […]
