Reaching over I check that I have the flyers I need. I pull the half size black and white flyers that say "Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition" right at the top. Printed on my home laser jet computer and sliced…

I heard this question asked on NPR this morning. “What if tehre was an elephant in your neighborhood. The interviewee said, "Nothing. No one would notice. Everyone is dealing with their own shit, like heroin addiction." What might my neighbors…

The sky is infinite-magnificently endless- and so are the possibilities of poetry.

[Fiction, an exercise for my novel. Berthe Morisot POV, Lost Journal Entries, June 23, 1886] Poetry falls from the sky when Mallarme visits us. In the evenings, he reads what he calls his scribbles. I strain to understand, lost as…

When I was a young girl, hard-wired tight and oh so sensitive, I forced myself to look impenetrable, on the outside. So attuned to the gaze of other eyes on me that I retreated, to the inside. Safe and calm…

Now is ALWAYS the time! And no matter how much you stress and strain to avoid it, no matter how hard you struggle to block it, your artistry will force its way out of your heart and mind, through your…

El Dorado read the front of the nightclub. It was located in Berlin’s gay neighborhood – the rainbow district. Agatha had never been in this neighborhood before. Orange lamps lit the interior of the club. Agatha peered in. She saw…

So when is life not chaotic? I mean, really…..when does it ever actually make sense? Sure, there may be a moment or two, when Love pokes its nosy nose in , convincing us , or trying to, that it has…

Bremerhaven was founded in 1827 as a seaport for Bremen. Bremerhaven expanded Bremen’s trading capacities and grew to become a major port for fishing and international shipping. It was a shipbuilding city too. “The fastest and best ships came from…

My whole adult life is about making up scenes for my films. A slew of scenes NOT made up by my mind are about what would happen when Kenji (my husband) and I applied for and received a grant from…