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KWELI JOURNAL LAUNCH READING FEATURING MY COVER ART AND AN INTERVIEW FROM FRANCE

Hello EVERYONE!

This event was last month but I didn't get to see it until last night-- they recorded me in France-- and thought I would share it because I didn't realize memories like my acc...

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Cottage by the Sea (in nail polish)

Happy October everyone!  My September in France, staying with an editor who lives with a big old sweet dog in a large 2 bedroom flat surrounded by park-like woods for 800 euros a month, remind...

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Almost There with the Cover...

The publisher works with a designer in Brazil who has done a little over 20 versions of this cover, and as you can probably see my first and last name needs a space, so that it's not only clear but...

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DIARY PAGE

I don't know about you and handwritten diaries but I have had a rather conflicted relationship with them, in that when moving (as I have done now around 22 times) whenever I come across the diaries...

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GLOSSOLALIA

Hello Everyone! Here's a reading of my story "Glossolalia" which was accepted for publication in Kweli Journal at the beginning of this week and will be in my story collection next year, and I have...

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PAINTING STARS ON CHAIRS

I've been obsessed with stars lately: I have a black star on the wall in the kitchen that initially was a reminder of Bowie's last album Blackstar and then quickly became something else, as I've al...

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TWO SISTERS

While doing Qigong this morning, I noticed I was facing this painting, a diptych that I sold many years ago but inherited back somewhat recently when the owner transitioned, and I realized I wanted...

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DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL Reading

So strange, because I posted this yesterday on Saturday and it didn't show up when I reopened the page today. Hopefully you are all out enjoying a beautiful Sunday and see this for a listen in the ...

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"DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL" STORY out on The MARKAZ REVIEW

This is the completed wallpaper of '80s fanfold computer paper painted in acrylics, watercolor style, in my nook, and I will now start on the other side.

I have a story out on The Markaz Revi...

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THE TIGER AND THE SNAKE

I went to LACMA last weekend where in the courtyard they had all 12 Chinese astrology figures, just the heads, mounted on very tall polls and because my one-time-print level patrons get a choice of...

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KEY TO THE CITY Reading

Hello Everyone, happy weekend!

I wanted to read to you my essay for Los Angeles Review of Books new Spring Quarterly Journal called "Key to the City." I read it at the launch party two Saturd...

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PUBLISHED DRAWINGS FOR BENEFITS BOOK

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Since you saw many of the finished drawings while I was in process last July/August before my deadline,I  just wanted to post a couple of the published drawings in Leslie...

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THE STORY COLLECTION TITLE DEBATE

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I am just about finished negotiating the details of my contract with the publisher for the story collection, we have come to agreement on everything except the title. The work...

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Few Things

Most of you know from my social media posts that my dad made his transition and so most of my time has gone to service and burial arrangements, which aren't yet set due to the backlog in the death ...

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Story of the Postcard that Hopefully Already Arrived

Wishing you all a very happy April! I wanted to tell you the story of this painting, "Laura with Tulips," which my sister modeled for, and was bought in 2019 by a couple who lent the painting to a ...

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'80s Fanfold Computer Paper as Wallpaper

For some days now I have finally been going into the fat box of 1980s fanfold computer paper that my friend Joel Rose gave me when I was living in New York in the '90s. Joel published a literary ma...

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PARTNERSHIP WITH HOUSING WORKS for NATIONAL WRITE YOUR STORY DAY

Hello Everyone! 

I realized that I often do not share what may have been posted on Instagram, Facebook and/or Twitter-- all of where Housing Works posted this video-- so here is the vide...

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WATERCOLOR SUNDAY

Just wanted to share with you my first cottage nook watercolor painting session, two days ago Sunday. I have been devouring Alice Walker's coming "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" a collection of her...

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Commiting

Never had a meditation practice longer than 90 days-- and that was 7 years ago due to a challenge that I signed my name to, saying that if I didn't, I would cut my hair off-- but as the world conti...

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TONI MORRISON'S short story "Sweetness"

Maybe a week or more ago I saved an image of a baby who I wanted to draw, and this was unusual since I don't think that I have much drawn babies other than my own kid when they were first born. I r...

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

I think it was on Saturday morning that I listened to Alain de Botton being interviewed on NPR's The Examined Life (?) I think the show might be called. And he talked about our human need to have f...

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Story Collection Title & Pitch

Hello everyone, it's my half birthday today and I write you from the room of my host's community house. I may have, probably have, mentioned that my first publisher is interested in doing another b...

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THE COUCHSURF CONTINUES

I have been managing to get writing done in the varied homes and atmospheres of beloveds putting me up until I am able to sign the lease on Feb. 1st for a cottage, a find and happening with all tha...

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GOODBYE 2021

I am writing you from a tiny room in a community house with a shared bathroom in the Mar Vista area of L.A., where it's been raining non-stop for days. I will be here through New Year's morning, wh...

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HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!

I returned early from Sedona since I want and need to move from where I've been living and so I didn't take time to make a medicine table but I did light a candle on the money jar I created/activia...

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THE CASTLE IN THE TREES READING

I was listening to Imogen TV's beautiful soundtrack for Glen Falls Sequence, when just afterward my Itunes played this surprising track I didn't remember recording-- from the L.A. Forum group show ...

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NEW MOON TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TABLE

Since I have been sharing my tables, I continue here. The intention in creating the table was balancing masculine and feminine energy for the planet. At the back left is Bastet again, with the Ange...

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IN PROGRESS

As always, I have four paintings in progress: this one you have seen in at least 2 stages, what is new is the blue background and stars, which look a little like a children's book, I see now as I p...

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HAPPY FULL MOON, LUNAR ECLIPSE & KARTHIGAI, FESTIVAL OF LAMPS

Due to the time of morning and the current poor light of the front room, it is hard to see the details of this table, but the figurehead is Bastet, flanked by tarot moon and world cards. My partner...

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COLOR STUDIES

An Italian publisher approached me this past Friday about writing for their travel book series, this one being on California (as opposed to a country, their previous books are on Ireland, Japan, Gr...

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