Well. Trump has been elected President of the United States, and the Klan is celebrating in Mebane, not 45 minutes from where we live.* Today I’m contemplating the very real impacts a Trump Administration – and the accompanying cultural shifts – are going to have: On my interracial family. My Muslim friends, who fear […]
A couple of weeks ago I was dog-sitting for my friend Jake who was out of town. At one point after breakfast, I found myself prostrate on the ground, weeping and talking with an intimate stranger…the Goddess, in fact. But before I go into all that, it’s probably helpful if I rewind a bit and […]
So last night we had a fun low-key Oscars party – thanks to Hugh, Renee, and everyone who came out! We were happy that Slumdog Millionaire just about swept the Oscars – it’s a great film about inner-city India, despair & hope if you haven’t seen it. (For a much more erudite take, listen to […]
So the other night I had a dream that there was a new commodity on the market called Intelligent Paper, an invention that did for books what Director’s Cut DVDs do for film. It was for all intents and purposes regular paper, except when you tapped a sentence–any sentence–twice with your finger, all kinds of […]
This morning I had what seemed to be the most meaning-laden dream. I dreamt that I was Superman, or had similar powers. Or was beginning to. There was this woman who (not to be misogynistic or anything–this is just how it happened!) was quite large, and she controlled this town where I was living. She […]
