It’s New Years Eve.  So much has been said about this decade that for lack of a better name is being called the post 9/11 decade. Remember Seattle’s public Millennium Celebrations that got cancelled because of a terrorist plot.  Remember the sight gag on late night TV, Seattle’s New Year’s Celebration as a few guys [...]

Yeah!  Happy Happy nothing to prove.  Friend from Seattle who grew up in Montana–Hey!  I grew up in Montana.  No expectations.  Drink wine  Put ornaments on the Christmas tree  Eat dinner:) Happy Happy Happy Time for bed:)

While watching the new Disney animated movie, The Princess and the Frog at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and then photographing my daughter next to various Disney Princesses, all of whom were at the Roseland Ballroom afterwards, as part of The Princess and the Frog Ultimate Disney Experience, it occurred to me that the “finally a Black Disney Princess” princess [...]

The meeting started with a viewing on a laptop of some really great still photographs of women clowns on stage by a photographer who was there at the theater. What was clear in the photographs is that we’re fascinating people every one of us and as a group we are amazing. Creative process, generating material, [...]

President Obama made an important speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace today. In my  own small life I wrote a blog post and went to a meeting with the clown troupe.