Tracking Wonder Quest # 4 is brought to us by Dr. Tina Seelig, faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She asks – What advice would your future self a year from now give you today? My response this… Read More ›
Reflections
No Failure
This week I took on the challenge of envisioning a creative plan for 2016, by joining Tracking Wonder’s Quest 2016, and blogging to the prompts they post three times a week. Quest # 3 posed by author, educator, brand strategist,… Read More ›
On Teaching
I walked into my first “academic” job interview (I was applying to be a tutor at the writing center on campus) with three prior qualifications (some might say, three prior convictions!) under my belt: First, I was an actor; second,… Read More ›
Motherhood & Art: Uneasy Bedfellows?
Growing up, my mother told me I could be not only anything I wanted, but everything I wanted. This was good news to my 18-year-old self. It meant that I could be both an actor and a scientist, a lover… Read More ›
Lessons Learned: On Why Poetry Is Not a Luxury
A few days ago, I read Audre Lorde’s essay, Poetry Is Not a Luxury. Yes, I know it’s a classic. Yes, I’m a bit late to the game. But it’s as if this piece entered my life at just the… Read More ›
Sing
“Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.” Claudia Rankine ~ Citizen: An American Lyric I have spent most of my life being angry…. Read More ›
AROHO: Women in the Presence of Women
I should have known this. I went to an all-girl school and an all-girl university. I should have known that women in the presence of only women relate differently compared to when women are in the company of men. When… Read More ›
On Why I Cannot Say
In her post on the Irish Referendum on Same-Sex marriage, Iva Beranek writes, “I knew my view would not be popular . . . , yet, my conscience or something within me has been knocking and demanding I actually write… Read More ›