Dartmouth says that “personal diversity” means entertaining many different kinds of experiences in your own, daily life. It goes beyond the ordinary diversity in which we find ourselves surrounded, like it or not, with people who offer us counter narratives. Personal diversity means filling our days with activities that don’t match up with what we […]

I don’t begin to be an authority on race relations or all things racist. After all, I’m a white guy who has a decent amount of education in a white collar job. According to the masses, making it America is right up my alley… …however, I do have just a little expertise on the the […]

Surfing around Amazon today and I came across an oldie but a goodie written by yours truly: European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970, in the Australian National Gallery Hardcover – 1992. Yeah, you can buy the book on Amazon but the $1800 price tag might scare you aware from this out-of-print beauty. In a […]

LA is a gentle line of homes without a city //  You see some summers when a row of properties burn like a sacrifice above the desert // Moreover it’s more really the slow sleepy whip of driven-by Starbucks in strip malls // It’s a petro haze //  A lowrise watercolor forever outshone by its […]

Okay, so where am I? I sitting in my hotel room staring at a keyboard that doesn’t move and won’t move as a wrestle with my inadequacies that only copy can deliver to an imperfect mind. It both frightening and paralyzing. I have four books in print, countless commercials still on air, and a straight […]