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Blood, Sweat and Fears

Blood, Sweat and Fears

June 2020. Bored, deep into the pandemic and with all my clients in holding patterns, I decided to do a large fabric art project I had been thinking about for years. With the aid of some grippy bottom shoes, I fell off the ladder onto the pointy tip of my elbow.

How to be an Introvert: Cry

How to be an Introvert: Cry

In 4th grade the teacher called on me. I didn’t raise my hand. I never raised my hand. The last thing I ever wanted was to be called on. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the answers. I did. I think my entire life would have changed if I answered those questions.

A World on Fire

A World on Fire

As always has been and I suppose will continue to be, someone is toasting with champagne and sleeping in soft sheets, while someone is trying to sleep and comfort their crying children in an auditorium full of people to escape bullets.

What gives your life weight and substance? What are you searching for?

What gives our lives weight and meaning?

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

What are your favorite movies?

The English Patient: Fantasies of Being Skinless and Being Buried Alive?

English Patient: I did not experience a love story. It was a story of pathological, sadomasochistic obsession. I could have found that interesting in a movie, but please don’t tell me that was love.