Category Writing personally…

Circling Georgia O’Keeffe’s beloved Cerro Pedernal in a Cessna 172

Circling Georgia O’Keeffe’s beloved Cerro Pedernal, with Abiquiu Lake behind and Georgia’s Ghost Ranch beyond the Lake in the distance. This sliver of rock jutting out of the mountains was one of her favorite things to paint. I tried to… Read the full article

June 10, 2017 13

Backstage at the Cubiculo Theatre

Flash Back Friday

The trauma of failing handwriting as a girl

How’s your handwriting? That is, if you’re not laughing by now…I mean, who writes anything by hand any more? Personally, I wish I never had to, because my handwriting is horrendous, worse than a doctor’s. I suffered early childhood trauma,… Read the full article

October 25, 2016 44

Sugar’s, Embudo, New Mexico

You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Sugar Burger. Somehow you have to get yourself to Embudo, New Mexico (some say Dixon, some say Velarde) beside the Rio Grande River between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico to… Read the full article

September 25, 2016 20

My New York City in Photos

I have been walking the streets of New York City since the day I moved here, never tiring of it, feeling its history deep in my bones, awed at the almost organic nature of its existence. In spite of the… Read the full article

May 1, 2016 15

In Cornolo, Italy, I met this woman.

How well do we know our parents?

February 10, 2016 16

Whorl Wedding Rings

If you are an artist, inspiration can be found everywhere you turn. I designed these 18k rose gold weddings rings for pastry chefs, well known in Brooklyn (Dumbo and Cobble Hill) for their incredible cookies. Their store is One Girl… Read the full article

September 20, 2015 9

The Art of Standing in Meditation

The Art of Standing in Meditation I learned to sit in Lotus Position, known as Padmasana, to meditate when I was 14. Crossing my legs in upon my thighs, one ankle over the other, folding my fingers into one of… Read the full article

September 9, 2015 19

I watch the mesquite-scented smoke plume rise from the incense burner and remember Winters in the New Mexico desert.

March 1, 2015 21

It turns out that Doris Day, Bob Dylan and Emmy Rossum have something in common, which is an apparent appreciation…

February 7, 2015 27

“Certain things fall silent in us when we think that certain things are no longer possible.” – Frank Bidart, Poet,…

September 22, 2014 5

The Fogs of August

August 24, 2014 13

Lying under the Siena Sky

Lying heremy body feels like the Bell Tower in the Palazzo PubblicoStretching upwardto fly through the whiteLonging to reach the blueMy body a seed planted a foot beneath the soil,I can see a crack in the cobbled piazza stonesIf I could… Read the full article

July 27, 2014 21