Spring is coming. I can tell by the birds chirping on my fire escape. Winter coats being held in hands. And the smile that’s finally made its way to my lips.

Reflecting on a stimulating conversation with Katherine Jensen, Catherine Cronin, Donna Larios and Mark Childs about our shared interest in liminality, I came away with many ideas (of course), a few of which I will develop here. First, my starting … Continue reading →

Some of the top science achievements of 2015 are personal to me.  My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1940’s.  After a mastectomy she miraculously, even back then, was a cancer survivor.  Tragically, she died two decades later in a house fire.  My mother has faced cancer twice in her lifetime.  The first […]

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Florescent bulbs all lined up in a row, I do not like you. My eyes burn from your artificial intensity. Shoulders slump, back curves, jaw tightens. Is there real light out there? Will the Sun still be up when I leave your ever watchful presence over me? Do those windows open? Am I the only...Continue reading »

After a relatively long break, this is the second part of my blog on creating a social learning network or SLN. This will not be as detailed as the previous as work on the SLN was halted for reasons I’ll discuss later, but as usual this blog provides me with a repository for my research, […]

Good morning Monday, I woke to you, swung my leg over the side of the bed and felt the pain shoot up to my hip. I limped my way to the bathroom and performed my morning ablutions. Wash face, brush teeth, and well, you know. I limped back into the bedroom and back into my...Continue reading »

Phone calls and emails Scanned documents and fingerprint cards Background checks, reference checks and employment checks Passport photos, apostilled diplomas, and transcripts What do I need? What will I leave? Will it all fit in 2 bags and a carry on? And will I ever see him again when I go? Thoughts and actions after...Continue reading »

This is my sandpit. The creative space where I will learn new skills, and create new things.

I’m in NYC again, walking around among the places where it seems everyone I knew over the last 16 years in this city used to be able to afford to live. What a perfect frame of loss and longing, transition and possibility in which to speak on the Eulogy for the Dyke Bar (EFTDB) at PULSE today. EFTDB is an installation by artist and queer Macon Reed: a fully-immersive structure that revisits the legacies and physical spaces of dyke bars, an increasingly rare component of the contemporary queer cultural landscape. Made of simple materials and seductively saturated colors, Reed’s hand-made installation includes a full bar, pool table, jukebox, and wall-to-wall wood paneling.

I am honored to be part of that exhibit! I will be on a panel discussing the present moment of dyke bar closings at 1pm on 125 W 18th St. between 6th & 7th Avenues. I’ll …

Friday Night Crab claws Shrimp Coconut Milk Ginger Curry Tumeric Red Pepper Flakes Garlic White Wine House of Cards Comforter Sleep Saturday morning Run Squat Yoga Cause I don't want all that coconut milk, shrimp, and wine to settle.

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What can I write about? I am currently a literacy specialist with a non-profit organization in the Bronx. I work with K-2 students who are a grade level behind in reading and writing. My students love to read and learn about anything. They stumble most when it comes time to write. What’s the stumble? What...Continue reading »

What’s the story?  That’s the question the news director of a popular Chicago radio station consistently asked me when I worked as her summer intern, 31 years ago.  She’d send me  to cover stories that weren’t newsworthy enough for the paid staff, and then goad me afterwards to tell her the story I’d just experienced […]

It’s the end of the second shift, 5pm to 7pm. My eyes are weary. My shoulders are tight. My mouth is dry. My heels hurt. I am tired. And children went home with books, smiles, and laughter. Tired. And satisfied.

Whenever you join a new school/college or go settle in a new place, everyone asks “Where’re you from?” I am used to curious people digging deeper into my background and it’s fine as long as it is curiosity. Huh…its funny when I have to explain why people from two different states can actually get married, why… More Globalized Family

This assignment is for GIF and is worth 3.5 stars – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-musician-gif/ For this task i had to make a gif of my favourite musician. I chose to do Matthew Koma because I have been following him for a couple of years now and I love the song that he did with RAC which was Cheap […]

This assignment is worth 2.5 stars – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/motivational-poster-2/ For this task i thought about all the motivational posters that are out there and how they are just dull and boring and know one really listened to them,  I thought that if i was to make one it would have too draw people in with and make […]

This assignment is for web and is worth 4 stars – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/inklewriter-storytelling/ I would just like to say that if you read the blog first you will get spoilers to the story so read the story on https://writer.inklestudios.com because i would like you to know some of the ending before. For this task I needed to make an […]

This assignment is worth 4 stars – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/techno-viking-music-video/ I thought that this was a really exciting assignment because the video of the dancing viking man fit into a house beat, which is the music that I enjoy listing to on normal days. I looked at my playlist and found many house tracks that could be […]

The 1st video assignment that is worth 4.5 stars –http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/video-crack/ For this task i needed to pick a film and and add songs to the scenes that i liked to make them fit what was going on or make it funny. I chose to do iron man because i love him i mean after Batman […]

((I will start this blog by declaring that I was taking selfies long before I was posting online, simply by focusing a regular camera at something an arm’s length away, then turning it around. I was doing that as far back as 1999.  The proof is somewhere in a shoe box :)) Back to the […]