They say “look at your own city as if you are a tourist.” I think about that as I see the tourist buses drive down Melrose. I took a tourist…

We all have tendencies. If they are positive we call them talents. If they are negative we call them habits or worse addictions. Two big ones of mine are watching…

Can language be descriptive without being opinionated? Can we ever say anything that is objective? We all have our point of view. I love that expression. If you’ve ever drawn…

Oh, how I hate getting triggered. Privilege and entitlement still get to me. I’ve often heard what bothers us in others is what we don’t like about ourselves. I’ve thought…

I go between commerce being a way for artists to exist producing their art to feeling like art is minimalized when it has to fit into the commercial world. I…

Life is sound, i.e. vibrations. If you slow a pitch down enough it is just clicks. We hear because of the pulsing—the giving and taking away. Light is just pulsing…

I have realized after many years that taking time to acknowledge success is just as important as striving to be better. If you never stop to acknowledge yourself, it’s like…

Social good is something that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way… (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social_good.asp) …socialism is based on the idea that common or public ownership of resources…

I finally decided to suffer the violence and watch Squid Games, the show that everyone is talking about. It brings up so many questions about what we will do to…

Competition has been trumped (pun intended) by wining at all cost. It took me along time to accept that I was competitive. I remember playing softball in high school gym…