The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that...

I was in the fifth grade when Frankie died. It was 1971. My whole class planned to attend the funeral, since we knew him. My father...

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As I strolled the streets of Jaipur, northern India’s “pink city” nicknamed for the hue of its old buildings, men with time on their...

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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Lena Horne Two New Zealand airlines sent me ping-ponging between their...

“Screaming… …squatting… …running… …all those three things you should do every day.” Lynda Barry ◊ ◊ ◊ Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously

Motor scooters have been my preferred mode of transport in India, Bali, French Polynesia, Vietnam and the Caribbean. It’s one of my...

Harry taught me how to eat with chopsticks when I was 17 years old. I had taken a break from college to work full time, and we were...

“Gina, have you focused on your own life as much as you’ve focused on mine?” The Coach My soon-to-be ex-lover. The Scene The deck of a...

During a root canal a few years ago, my dentist and his assistant were discussing what he viewed as her excessive TV-watching habits....

I grew up fearful. Fearful of a mother whose two forms of communication were silence and rage. Fearful of a father whom I adored but...

I’m in a restaurant dining with a dear friend, who is an extrovert on steroids, and nine people in her network of friends and family....

From Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels: “We don’t go on because we’re ready; we go on because it’s 11:30.” ◊ ◊ ◊ During my late...

She drifted into my studio, more unencumbered then most. Hartford. Late April. Cold enough for outerwear, yet no coat, no pocketbook. A...

You probably already know what your knack is. Others have observed it in you. You’ve observed it in yourself, though you’ve yet to claim...

I am a human who, by marketing industry definition is a “late adopter.” I enjoy 21st century digital technology as long as it enhances...

Years ago I attended Boston’s Open Studio Weekend. At the time, I was living in an artist colony in Hartford, Connecticut. This was a...

OMG. Now what? What we focus on expands. I know this because there was a time when I attempted to distract myself from writing anxiety...