Category Archives: Women

Donald Trump’s Roots Are Showing

  Watching Trump’s performance yesterday I was struck with how he bore such a striking similarity to another Queens native, Archie Bunker. No one represented the silent majority of fading white male patriarchy than that other sexist, racist, xenophobic from

Donald Trump’s Roots Are Showing

  Watching Trump’s performance yesterday I was struck with how he bore such a striking similarity to another Queens native, Archie Bunker. No one represented the silent majority of fading white male patriarchy than that other sexist, racist, xenophobic from

We Are Not Going Back

Seven years ago I made this sign stating “We Won’t Go Back” to carry in the first Women’s March. That march in Washington bursting with thousands of women felt like democracy at its best. The fact that this was echoed

We Are Not Going Back

Seven years ago I made this sign stating “We Won’t Go Back” to carry in the first Women’s March. That march in Washington bursting with thousands of women felt like democracy at its best. The fact that this was echoed

A Place Called Hope

Have we all just landed in a place called Hope? Damn, it feels so good. Suddenly within 24 hours, doom scrolling has turned into hope scrolling. As though a laser came down to zap everyone, there is a surge of

A Place Called Hope

Have we all just landed in a place called Hope? Damn, it feels so good. Suddenly within 24 hours, doom scrolling has turned into hope scrolling. As though a laser came down to zap everyone, there is a surge of

Artists Talk ACCESS An Ordinary Notion

  The legacy of suffragist Alice Paul brought to life on the stage in the Tony award-winning production of Suffs, was also the inspiration behind  ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion an exhibition I am honored to be part of at the

Artists Talk ACCESS An Ordinary Notion

  The legacy of suffragist Alice Paul brought to life on the stage in the Tony award-winning production of Suffs, was also the inspiration behind  ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion an exhibition I am honored to be part of at the

Who Knew Adopting A Dog Would Feel Like Online Dating?

Who knew finding a dog could be as tough as online dating? Finding my furbaby Moe was a fraught process with age becoming a liability. I share my story of how I cleared all the many hoops in my article

Who Knew Adopting A Dog Would Feel Like Online Dating?

Who knew finding a dog could be as tough as online dating? Finding my furbaby Moe was a fraught process with age becoming a liability. I share my story of how I cleared all the many hoops in my article

D Day A Country United 80 Years Ago

It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty polished up her saddles

D Day A Country United 80 Years Ago

It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty polished up her saddles

D Day A Country United 80 Years Ago

It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty polished up her saddles

D Day A Country United 80 Years Ago

It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty polished up her saddles

Who’s Your daddy?

    What daddy wants Daddy gets And daddy wants Old Spice Men who score, use Old Spice. And whatever daddy wants, daddy gets. And Daddy Donald wanted Stormy. ‘Cause even money can’t buy him Ivanka. Things Happen With Old

Who’s Your daddy?

    What daddy wants Daddy gets And daddy wants Old Spice Men who score, use Old Spice. And whatever daddy wants, daddy gets. And Daddy Donald wanted Stormy. ‘Cause even money can’t buy him Ivanka. Things Happen With Old

I Found Out I Can Do Something

Last Sunday, the shy little girl who was too scared to raise her hand in class and use her voice, the young woman so hampered by shame for decades that she kept silent, won the award for best voiceover in

I Found Out I Can Do Something

Last Sunday, the shy little girl who was too scared to raise her hand in class and use her voice, the young woman so hampered by shame for decades that she kept silent, won the award for best voiceover in

Happiness is A Warm Puppy. Not Killing One

Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Not Killing One. Moe ‘Kingfish’ Katz with a nod to Charles Schulz When I returned home after five days away at the New Bedford Film Festival it was into the loving paws of my dog

Happiness is A Warm Puppy. Not Killing One

Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Not Killing One. Moe ‘Kingfish’ Katz with a nod to Charles Schulz When I returned home after five days away at the New Bedford Film Festival it was into the loving paws of my dog