Great Horned Owl I am blessed with good health. I have a husband who I love and who loves me. I live in a beautiful house filled with art (our home has doubled as Haitian and contemporary ethnic art gallery for 32 years*). And I have owls for neighbors. In Hollywood, California. Yup, you read that right. The Hollywood of obnoxious helicopter attacks from the sky at the drop of a film premiere, not to be outdone by blaring sirens Read More…

I know it isn’t polite for women to show anger (I found this is still the case after recently writing a rant about corporate greed and covid frustrations, among other issues), but America better brace itself if the Supreme Court manages to overturn Roe v. Wade. Because we are about to witness how angry women look and act when the government tries to take away their autonomy. As it is, we (and people around the world) are watching in horror Read More…

“Aizan” by Edouard Duval-Carrié What is the purpose of art? Is it to inspire? Is it meant to make us think? Is art creation anything other than the artist’s need to express herself? Is seeking out art in galleries, museums, and artist studios a way for us to process ideas that may be too complicated to express in words? Is art a way for artists to earn a living, regardless of how meager or plentiful? For art collectors to make Read More…

Excuse my language but I’m just quoting old friends of ours. 25 years ago, my husband and I knew a married couple, who occasionally would tell us — with glee — about how they had screwed someone out of their money. It was usually within the context of how the screw-ee deserved it somehow because of their business practices (kind of like how you would talk about an insurance company). This is how we learned about factors. The couple was Read More…

On the heels of the f*cked up ruling on Bill Cosby, I’ve read several analyses, op-eds, and essays in which the rule of law is being extolled for having worked as intended. Um, WTF?? Excuse me, but this whole thing make me wanna holler, throw up both my hands, swear a lot, and use ALL CAPS. We live in a world where a criminal who preyed on some 60 women can walk because a prosecutor promised his testimony would only be used Read More…