Art Is Fear

Eclipse Chaser

For a brief moment, I considered canceling my trip to see the eclipse last week. We’d booked a flight to Texas almost a year ago…

Cultivating the aesthetic mindset

Research-based civic engagement plus good old common sense…

Searching for the truth about yourself

I was sobbing by the end of “How to be a Korean Woman,” a play written and performed by Sun…

Happy New Year!

My friend Ken helped me write a mission statement and five guiding values over a decade ago that helped steer me away from…

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

This picture of me was taken before the Christmas bombings of “industrial” targets in…

Rainbows and Unicorns in Paris

Loving Paris is so unoriginal.

Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Alarming reports of a bed bug infestation filled my social media feeds in the weeks before I flew to Paris for…

Watch the world go by

Parisians are known for café life, but that doesn’t mean they serve great coffee. Paris café coffee is often bland and…