Engage. Comment. I dare you. Shannon Peel It takes a depth of humanity, transparency and presence to connect authentically with others in...

What do I imagine would happen if I responded to pain with softness and vulnerability instead of self-recriminations about how I am not d...

Diane (a pseudonym) called to ask, “Are we okay?” A question I wasn’t expecting from 10 feet below the usual surface talk. I was at the d...

“Overwhelmed by life’s complexity?” “Realize that our [English] alphabet consists of only 26 letters, calculations are based on a set of ...

“When I walk into an unknown situation, I don’t focus on what others think about me, I focus on what I think about them.” I was 17 years ...

This scar across my neck has started so many conversations and friendships. If you have been where I have been, you know what it means. M...

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egot...

“If you think this book is just about ‘doing drag,’” says the Amazon blurb for GuRu by RuPaul, “you are sorely mistaken. For RuPaul, drag...

Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game that traces its roots to the 1920s Parisian Surrealist Movement. Usually played by several peopl...

One day in 2013, after a collage-making frenzy, I looked about my apartment at the tornado of art supplies and considered putting order t...

In 2008, I independently produced the audio version of my third book, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road, r...

Gina’s 2017 Writing Journal: From the walking trail in route to the parking lot, I heard children’s yelps in the playground to my left. Tw...

Downward Dog Yoga Pose Releases tension in low-back, hamstrings, calves and Achilles tendon. If you’ve not tried this, it’s far more rela...

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Jr In the introduc...

A year-long journey in Expressive Arts Training in 2011 helped me to understand how my writing benefitted from varied art modalities such...

Gina: At age 80 you realized that your Pension Fund was on its last drop and soon you’d be living off Social Security alone. Most people w...

How could I account for my father’s worldview, that of a generation of black man born and grown into manhood in America’s Apartheid South...

“What’s coming is a million new reasons not to live your life. You can deny your possibility to succeed and blame it on something else. Y...

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood But I’m takin’ a Greyhound o...