My ancestors are either bursting with pride or rolling in their graves. My animated (storyboarded) play, The Dirndl Diaspora, is getting great reviews! This 90-minute animated/storyboarded feature-length film was written as a play + fashion show for Oaktoberfest, but 2020 decided we couldn’t have live theater, so I upshifted the whimsy. This story, about a seamstress […]
One of those days with 5 costume changes and 4 personalities in 3 cities doing 2 things at 1ce.
Tomorrow is Indie Author Day and I’m thrilled to be representin’ at the Dublin Public Library! Indie publishing allows for maximum creativity, and I love every aspect of book-making! I have been publishing independently since my cartoon collection, Inside the Mills Revolution, won the 1990 Bay Guardian Cartoon Contest AND was banned from the campus […]
I’ve just written my third Ode to Oakland (after Joaquin Miller Went Walkin’ and BeMused). May I introduce: The Dirndl Diaspora! After instigating some polka at Oaktoberfest last year, my eyes were drawn to the brilliant riots of color at the multiple African fabric pop-ups. What do they have to do with Germany? I wondered. All […]
I have been focused on two things, lately: The re-launch of my book, The Souls of Her Feet as the first edition of the Fairytale Reality Project, and Every Man, Woman and Child, a world party focused on teaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through music. What on earth do these two things have to […]
On Monday I’ll be reading my poem, “Invocation,” for the first time! I wrote it in 2015 in deep collaboration with Franz Liszt himself—it’s one of my creative treasures and I’ll be giving it my all! Come one, come all, to my debut reading at Bay Area Generations. I have followed this literary adventure series […]
I’m thinking about LOVE this week (one of my very favorite topics). And chocolate. And music! I created an event in 2017 about the sweetness of all these things. “La Dolce Vita” (I’m always on an Italian theme this time of year too, ruined by the magic of Carnevale) featured songs on the theme by […]
When you follow the blog of a multipotentialite (a.k.a. polymath a.k.a. Renaissance Woman), you never know what might be served up. Neither do I, frankly! I can get so stuck trying to choose what to write about that time flies by and my best work gets lost in the shuffle. I’m going to try to […]
L’aventura continues! Three years ago I took a life-changing trip to Italy. I blogged about it, and now that blog is becoming a book! And I’m going back to the Bel Paese, back to the Boot, to get that ball of a book rolling! That’s the short version… The long version is last time I tried to […]
There is a goosebump moment I enjoy, in my life, on a regular basis: when I lead the song “Waka Waka” in my Zumba classes, and a room full of old folks of European and Asian descent raise their arms reverently at the end as Shakira says “We are all Africa.” The same thing happens […]
I am so tired of talking about bullying. Aren’t you? I am so ready to start talking about the opposite! Friendship. Cooperation. Happiness. Positivity. So much, in fact, that I created a whole new word for it. I am so proud of this book we wrote, my mom and I. And the blog I created to expand […]
We have completed our giveaway of 3,000 copies of The Bullying Antidote! After two years connecting with dozens of Oakland organizations, we put the last 800 copies of the books directly into the hands of Oakland parents at a Back to School Rally. The word “Zorgos” was on everyone’s lips, thanks to a new acrostic that teaches positive parenting philosophy. […]
