Continue Reading Art on the Road: Transparency – An LGTBQ+ Glass Art Exhibition at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma “One can resist only in terms of the identity that is under attack.” Hannah Arendt Men in Dark Times, 1968. The…
Continue Reading Shiny On Sunday I walked in Tacoma, the second biggest city and urban area in the state of Washington. It has a large…
Continue Reading Creepy We’ll get to the creepy part in a minute. First let me show you some photographs of a scene I encountered on…
Continue Reading Quirky Last week I drove back home along Martin Luther King Blvd. from a meeting and saw numerous colorful and strangely dressed humans…
Continue Reading I truly wonder I truly wonder how much courage it takes to be a journalist these days. It has become literally an existential choice for…
Continue Reading I quietly wonder I quietly wonder if the longing ever goes away. This is November, the month of my mother’s death in 1983, and even…
Continue Reading I often wonder… I often wonder how so many women out there manage to face health decisions and catastrophes with courage, independently of how varied…
Continue Reading I sometimes wonder… I sometimes wonder where people come up with language that is at once enticing and also really, really far fetched. “Bedeviled by…
Continue Reading I wonder… Imagine someone offered you the main role in a 5 minute-play about a failed reconciliation between lovers. You would have to perform…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Science vs Science (2) Yesterday I wrote about some reasons why people distrust or outright reject science: contradictory findings are held against the validity of the…