I stopped watching the news, here’s what I do instead
How do you fill your days? Watching TV and the news. Reading the papers. Scrolling social on your phones. Of course, we all go to work and then return home to complete projects that seem to have the...
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Oprah & Deepak 21 Day Meditation Experience
There is a place within you where you can find solace, comfort, and peace. It’s not using your mind to problem solve past issues, ruminations, or events. It’s a place of stillness where you can tap...
View ArticleA small room in Boston
I write from a small room in Boston without a view. There are two west-facing windows which open to the mustard-colored clapboard siding of the neighboring three-story, and at this time, it is an...
View ArticleThe work of artist Rick Garcia
My most recent cover story for Venü Magazine, The Art and Heart of Rick Garcia, Winter issue, 2019-2020. An internet search of artist, Rick Garcia, will show only the lightest of online footprints...
View ArticleRituals for Winter Solstice
It surprises me how dark the days of winter are in Boston. Daylight here falls somewhere between the golden glow of afternoon which I experienced in Connecticut and the dark nights of Sweden. Over the...
View ArticleSmudging for health and emotional comfort
My son, the physicist, calls it “witchcraft” but I’ve been smudging for several years and have found the practice to be not only spiritually comforting but effective in eliminating negative energy and...
View ArticleNinth Street Women and the MFA’s Big Show
When women are left out of the annals of art history only half of our collective human history is being told. A study of art history shows us not only visual representations of any given artist’s...
View ArticleForest Bathing – Our Connection with Trees
There is a concept, known as biophilia, introduced by American biologist E. O. Wilson in 1984, that humans have an innate need to connect with nature. Wilson believed that because we evolved in nature,...
View ArticleWomen, art, and the future
I have great business associates — it turns out that most of them are women. On a Tuesday afternoon in October, I had the good fortune to speak with two of them. The conversation was familiar and...
View ArticleSleeping with Hemingway
I sleep with books now. Sleeping with books wasn’t something I planned nor was it something I was aware of wanting to do. But it seems there was always some memory or picture in my mind of doing so —...
View ArticleWhat now – In pursuit of purpose
I’ve been silent, I know. For the last few weeks (months) I’ve been considering my state of what Lyn Slater at Accidental Icon, has called her “whatnowness”. We are not alone. Thirty year olds are...
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Artist Katie Swatland
Artist Katie Swatland has an amazing story. It was my pleasure to help her tell it. My most recent piece for Venü Magazine: Katie Swatland’s Alchemy Visions, Curiosity Without Bounds: In the winter...
View ArticleFailure to protect
Once when I was in Gothenburg, I was abandoned on the street at one o’clock in the morning by my fiancé. The buses and trams stopped running that late at night and so while he jumped into a cab to get...
View ArticlePlaying Smash Bros taught me not to be afraid to suck
My son studies physics at UMass Boston. He studies a lot but in his free time he enjoys playing video games. Like most his age, he has been playing an assortment of genres since he was six years old....
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Collecting Visual Trinkets – The allure of beauty in everyday life
I had a hard time writing this essay. It has been several weeks in the making and perhaps because it was meant to be uplifting and inspirational, it stifled me. The photography came easily but words...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned after two years of narcissistic abuse recovery
It was New Year’s Eve afternoon, two years ago, when I did the bravest thing I’ve ever done. I told my fiancé, “I’ve had enough”, called the police, and escaped four years of narcissistic abuse. Four...
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Cozy Christmas – Celebrating Iceland’s Jolabokaflod
The idea of being cozy. It is the absolute definition of self care during cold winter nights. I learned a good deal about coziness when I was living in Scandinavia. This normally included big fluffy...
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Artemisia’s Revenge
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), was a painter so gifted, and of such high caliber, that she was included in my traditional art history education — traditional art history, of course, being the study...
View ArticleBecoming entangled with a narcissist
Many people wonder how it is that we get entangled with a narcissistic personality that is not only abusive but is hell bent on destroying us. How could this possibly happen? I too was ignorant of how...
View ArticleGive Yourself Some Grace
During a recent rant with my therapist, I was telling her—in a rather manic way—all the things that were frustrating me about recovery from narcissistic abuse. I explained that I felt my sense of self...
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