My aunt Ruth passed away this week, may she rest in peace. We shared no blood ties: she married my mother’s brother. But the last two weeks, as she completed her transit from this world, my thoughts have returned again and again to her influence in my life, stronger than blood.
Growing up in the […]
I love the idea of protected public space within the culture. National parks are the physical analog for the kind of thing I’m talking about: public libraries, public radio, monuments and murals of the type muralist Judy Baca calls “sites of public memory.” These are spaces of meaning freely available to each and every one […]
Two of my readers have given me a lot to think about. They wrote comments on my February 12th blog, “The Fashion in Outrage,” about controversies over art. It contrasted Americans’ huge response to recent domestic literary scandals with our inertia with respect to political ones.
From Israel:
The fact that “tout le monde” is more […]
My friend was fulminating about the Bushies: “So their lies are piling up, a huge pile of deceit, and what can we do about it? We just have to sit it out till the next election? Why aren’t people up in arms?” (Maureen Dowd’s Saturday Times column has a good compilation of recent lies, if […]
I belong to a great support group for women artists. There are five of us, all involved in very different types of work. Even though some are visual artists and others make music or write, we’ve learned in our time together how many common questions we face. When Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929 that “a […]
It’s funny how certain things stick in your mind. Before Powerpuff Girls stickers, bath mats, T-shirts, wristwatches, PJs, Gameboys, backpacks, books…—before the vast economic potential of product tie-ins were more than a gleam in Hollywood’s eye—Saturday morning kids’ TV was an unvarying stream of cartoon shorts first shown in the interstices of the Saturday matinee […]
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