• The Magic of a Librarian

    As a kid, the librarian was a combo plate of a nice mommy, a mystical enchantress, and a safe space for a shy little girl. She knew books. All the books. She’d let you take them home. And check the same books out again. Imagine my delight when a real librarian not only read Sleep…

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  • The Myth of The Muse

    Along with the well-fed illusion that we are incomplete without a significant someone, is the concept that creative endeavors are melt-in-the-mouth whirls of complete brilliance, easy to come by, and even easier to shape into something of commercially epic proportions. I hate to be the one to break it to you, oh-innocent grasshopper but The…

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  • Topless and Topical

    The all mighty pendulum is moving like a toddler on a swing in the middle of a hurricane. Good. It’s tough to watch from the shadows, safe in the contrived obscurity of keeping my mouth shut tight.  A long time ago, my headshot and very short resume were enough to get me an audition for…

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  • Words Over Epstein

    Like all things that grate without pause, giving me no rest until thoughts manifest as words, I suspect many minds are far from peaceful. Jeffrey Epstein’s death makes me restless. Hubris might have worn the reapers cloak, but hubris had a wing man. A dangerous one. There is no collective breath singing ding dong the…

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  • Polishing Silver In The Dark

    Like a recreated mastodon, all our relationships, both the newly interred as well as the ancient live on. Forever frozen in time to give us continual insights into how and why we choose them. Relationships secured in glass cases lit for clarity (or continued delusion), available for perusal 24/7. There’s never a line, and admission…

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  • Having It All

    Pick any beach early in the morning, when the sweet beige sand is as unblemished as a prom queen’s face, and you’ll discover the hunter of lost paraphernalia. With a not-so-magic wand to glimpse below the sandy surface, anything found becomes a treasure. But do the trinkets and coins revealed have value because they were…

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