Flowering yellow Happiness in a long stem Calmly in a storm Last night we spent the evening in a small town up the California north coast. Rain and huge waves crashing ashore created a soothing lullaby. Have you ever fallen asleep to the sounds of the ocean […]
Heavy but weightless My heart is also my brain Shimmering and bold
The volcano awaits! Nothing more exciting than flying into a piece of earth where everything is both diverging and converging and one’s personal space is a fiery air. They wanted to breath in the ash-sooted air and feel fire on their skins one last time before the end of the life […]
Last year I had three different jobs in three different cities. Work and work life and work travel consumed my life. Last year from February to June, I was traveling back and forth between San Francisco and New York about twice a month. Then I spent […]
There is an an old piece of weather folklore that notes “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning”. Red sky at morning is said to signal rain.” But what about red rain? I have always loved the Peter Gabriel song of Red Rain. It is […]
Back in college on summer day, I was returning from my field work trip. I was doing a summer research program that had saved me from a summer of couch surfing. I was walking across campus, deep in thought as to what I needed to accomplish the […]
It has been about eight years since I last lived in an apartment building. While I transition to Los Angeles over the next six months, I will be living in a highrise that has a pool, gym and super friendly conceirge staff. Sounds a little glamorous I am […]
Back in the day I traveled to a far away land. Well, to me it was. What did a South Bronx girl know about Egypt? This one? Not much. I knew what is generally known. Its history, its geography and language. I even bothered to learn […]
Christmas in Los Angeles is something I have thought of in the past as a vacation or as something that I have seen as a quirky occurrence on television shows such as 90210 or Melrose Place. I had no idea last year when I was celebrating Christmas in […]
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” —Hal Borland As of late, Mondays have been a trip down nostalgia lane. I recall when I went away to boarding school up in Massachusetts, my south bronx sensibilities were struck by the […]
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