Not Guilty, Just Pleasure
It’s been 159 days since my family started quarantine. The litany of events we have experienced in that short amount of time, both domestic and world-wide, resembles a ludicrously bad […]
Category Archives: Writing
Identity Politics
Way back in 1992 it was considered deviant to have a tattoo. People with tattoos fell into categories like punk, artist, biker and the formerly incarcerated. This meant that I […]
Risk Management
I’m updating my website with the help of a super talented, visually oriented friend. An unexpected response to the necessary questions like “who is your audience?”, and “what do you […]
A Trip around the Sun
There are some milestones in life where there is an expectation that we engage in a little self-reflection. Big moments like the birth of a child, or the death of […]
Amanda Bear with Too Much Content
When our daughter was younger she was really into The Bearenstain Bears books and cartoons. The books, if you have managed to avoid all 300 of them, dealt with single […]
Crazy Busy is Not a Thing
I recently described the last six months of my life as a time of “unprecedented stress.” What would have been more accurate is if I had said to my friend […]
Paper Cuts
One of the most painful things I watch my clients experience is not losing a job to a more qualified candidate its discovering that they were the “paper candidate.” Sometimes […]
Cowardly
I asked my daughter what she might say to help a friend have the courage to do something new even though they were scared. After clarifying that the scary thing […]
Monkey Bread
My writing about politics and current events has been in a long summer drought. I didn’t check out of the info stream because I was so consumed with summer vacations […]
No Duty To Retreat
An uncomfortable truth is hidden under the national discussion about music being played too loud, and the hoodies that criminals wear. Racism is not going anywhere. I feel this observation […]
Lipstick
Occasionally age-related vanity gets me in its grip. Now that I wear glasses all the time, I feel like my eyes look small. Not that I have Manga eyes to […]
Time Out
Time off means different things to different people. For me, stretches of “free time”, also known as “Holidays”, usually mean “Project Management”. Winter break projects usually involve paint, furniture rearranging […]
Creating a life…
For everyone who is an artist, writer, activist, poet, dreamer, parent… This inspired me.
Camo
As I get older it gets harder to recover from late nights and too little sleep. Sleep is one of those things that gets to be a habit. Your body […]
Amusing
August looks like it might shape up to be a month of self discovery. Things I need to discover in no particular order:
