It happened instantly, the change you made in me, the response to the questions I don’t know how to ask, and the awakening of “ A Love Supreme.” I drink my red wine to your tones over and over, and you swim through my veins in the deep end. I make a toast to you, [...]
Art brought us out of the Dark Ages. The sheer survival of the arts is not enough to keep our country in check. We are heavy with financial burden. We are exhausted from market anxiety. We are losing our minds. And all the while, we are getting dangerously closer to letting the art that keeps [...]
I have always thought that I’m much better on my own. I get more accomplished. I take more risks, and I’m more in control. A salsa dancing instructor once told me I have “control issues.” He wasn’t kidding. “Your decade of solo dance training has made it difficult for you to trust your partner,” [...]
Me on Fourth of July Many Ions Ago Before I venture off into a great beer and barbecue abyss on this lovely 4th of July, I’m going to come right and say something that I haven’t felt compelled to express since I became an [...]
I wrote the following poem in 1999 for Jon Accarrino and all of our friends at Ithaca College. I was highly against electronic communication back then. Of course, now the very method of correspondence that I so adamantly refused to embrace is what has reconnected us all. We should be lying on our backs in [...]
