Can We Not Pause? Reflections on the Shootings in Arizona
Today′s shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson, Arizona is a tragedy. There is no doubt about that. My thoughts of compassion are with all those who have been touched personally by this...
View ArticlePassion and Play: Artist Advocate Arising
For much of my life, my need to tell stories has been filtered through theatrical performance. But fiction was my first love. Like too many sensitive children, I let an English teacher kill my passion...
View ArticleStorytellers Matter to the World
“[T]he fact that every life counts is built into the work we do.” Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing I spent the morning of September 11th at the monthly...
View ArticlePerformance Poetry and the Politics of the Marginalized
WARNING Unlike most of what I write, this is highly political. If you don’t want to go there, stop reading now. There is a war on women being waged in the U.S. and women are losing. If you haven’t been...
View ArticleDare to Be Yourself
This is the beginning of a series examining the power of truth-telling in life and art. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” May Sarton Do you...
View ArticleSpeaking Out About Suicide: An Open Letter To Noah
A friend of mine has a suicidal son. He is 12 years old and announced on his Instagram page recently that he planned to kill himself on his 13th birthday, which is less than two weeks away. In addition...
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Why Men Need Feminism
picture by Mark Normand I have been spending time recently with too many men who have been damaged by the expectations placed on men to be “manly”. In some cases, these men are struggling to find new...
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