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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
