High heels, neat hats, and a large desk with a commanding presence: My wish for dinner with Vigdís Finnbogadóttir While in the old part of Panama City, Panama, I came across much graffiti of interest and note that keeps running through my mind. Immediately upon entering the […]
In New York you do not magically have a spare room. Oftentimes, you may not really have a kitchen or you may have a bathroom for which you have to stand in the hallway in order to brush your teeth. Extra space in New York? Nah, never gonna […]
Water, water everywhere My mother was very scared of the water. She was mostly fearful of pools and oceans. When she was a tween (before said tween label existed) she nearly drowned at a New York beach. She flailed around and wailed for what […]
The Lost Art of the Handoff: Where will our Memories and Stories Go? This past weekend I went for a drive up the shore of Connecticut and came across a very quaint town called Niantic that seemed liked it was carved out from a movie set. […]
The patron saint of wackiness and calling it like it is I don’t suffer fools well. I especially don’t suffer fake fools and non self-aware fools very well. Or so I have been told. I also don’t tolerate uncalled for arrogance and pretentiousness. I have a nose for […]
A moment in time in the Tokyo Fish Market I sat at the local corner starbucks in the fish market area of Tokyo. I watched, observed, drank my latte. I sat, observed and snapped one, two and hundred photos of everyday life in Tokyo. The […]
I’ve run so far away from you Looking back I don’t know what I see We were once a welcomed whole Now we are memory fragments From the rocky nest I flew To catapult a hungry, weary knee In and around many a rocky dust bowl […]
A Jim Jarmusch like moment in Panama: A storied moment on the train tracks As I whizzed on by in the car in a town north of Panama City, Panama, I looked out the window towards the train tracks. Trains as a mode of transportation have […]
I was meant to be a psychologist: But Why? I was a smarty pants, book smarts girl from the South Bronx. I read ten books a week sometimes for books were my escape into other worlds and realms of possibilities. I knew there was more out […]
Proudly I’m a Jill of all trades: Don’t ask me about crocs, dark matter or dog grooming I take great pride in being a jill of all trades. As a social psychologist, who is embedded within a community based organization, I have to develop knowledge across a wide […]
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