My graduate advisor, “Anna”,was a truly brilliant woman. She spoke four languages fluently, she performed as a jazz musician and she was influential in research and teaching that made early social experiences for toddlers affected by autism with neurologically typical…
View writingMusic - the music of the spheres- music in its purest form is a language all people can understand.,,,music is the language of the soul....language is music...music is language, pure and simple….in fact, the very purest. Man first made sounds,…
View writingBella had been home from the war to end all wars for 3 years when it happened. The first year, Bella huddled in Herr finkham's White House unmoving, like Agatha. Shocked from the death he saw in the war; guilty…
View writingHi Katie, this is a rewrite of a story I've been fooling around with so its off prompt. Actually, I started it months ago so it may be familiar to you. The first hurricane was awful. It felt like everything…
View writingIn our decades together, I always saw my husband and filmmaking partner, Kenji, as a wild, crazy, funny, ready-to-do-anything kind of guy. I never realized how heavy a lid was on his voice. He and I didn’t succeed at everything…
View writingWe were meant to sing! Every single one of us has a song within us and our voices - all of our voices- have a unique song within that is like no other song in the Cosmos! I was, as…
View writingPure creative consciousness has been achieved!
View writingIt takes itself out for ice cream. It ditches the wallet and carries cold cash in its pocket. It books a trip to Honduras and chats up everyone it meets. It sings loud and strong! It drinks too much and…
View writingI used to have a different life in a different place. People knew me as a different person then. Also, this is not my real name. Also, this is not my real face. Also, when I was in my twenties…
View writingMy first memory of my father is the day he came home from Germany in his crisp Air Force uniform. I was only four years old, had no idea who he was, but because my mother and grandparents (his parents)…
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