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How Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson Speak the Same Language

How Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson Speak the Same Language

What binds Cohen, Buckley, and Tomlinson is not genre or fame. It’s something quieter and more sacred. They stood apart, each in their own time, each in their own way. And in doing so, they created work that doesn’t just last, it lives.

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.

My Policeman. Book Review (with a movie review update).

My Policeman. Book Review (with a movie review update).

The movie highlighted the intersection of desire, hatred, and violence in the context of a homophobic culture.