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Smoking frieze
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
Photo: “Smoking Frieze” taken by my pal Keith Mulvihill, West 19th Street, NYC, January 3, 2012 Why should we use all of our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulations of [too many] objects and [too much] money. […]
Thinking outside the box
Originally published in December 2011 in Blog
Window shopping this weekend I noticed a trend in wall hangings: large, white cardboard cutouts of the Canadian provinces, especially the trio of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It got me thinking: if you only bought Saskatchewan, no one would know what the rectangle on your wall signified. Cartography is a human invention, an […]
What a difference a day makes
Originally published in August 2011 in Blog
The nearness of you
Originally published in May 2011 in Blog
Je chante
Originally published in January 2011 in Blog
I’ve made lots of mistakes in my time, but I narrowly missed this one: background music on my website. When I launched my site last January, I imagined my home page, seen here, … uploading to the sound of Charles Trenet‘s plucky 1940s song, Je Chante (♪I Sing♪). It reminds me of snooty French curators, […]
2010 Roundup
Originally published in December 2010 in Blog
The scariest post to write My best posts are usually the scariest to write. I’ve found that the more scared I am about the content, the more likely I am to connect with my readers because we all struggle with the same stuff. But there’s a fine line between tacky confessionals and honest storytelling. Maybe […]
