Being Breezie

Read my flash fiction piece "Fresh Water" in FORTH!

My latest short fiction piece “Fresh Water” was published in FORTH Magazine. This flash fiction was inspired by a writing exercise I did in a writing class with Richard Rayner (read my interview with him in Exposition Review) about the last time two people see each other. Set on Mars, this is a story of love found, lived, and scattered across the universe. Enjoy: “Fresh Water” in FORTH Magazine

See it before it closes on 5/27: Zadok Ben-David at Shoshana Wayne Gallery and in #ExpoRecommends: "Surface" Inspiration

Inspired by our latest issue, “Surface” a few of the other Expo editors and I created a list of multi-genre recommendations. In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and podcast recommendations from the other editors, yours truly found a must-see art exhibition in Los Angeles: At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Zadok Ben-David’s People I Saw but Never Met (on view through May 27) blankets the surface of the…

Here it is! Exposition Review‘s latest issue Vol. II: “Surface” is now available online! “Surface” is all about perspective. Full of unique voices and blending genres, this issue is a close examination of the superficial and the sublime, of the hidden depths and delicate tensions inherent to the human experience. Together, the works presented in “Surface” take us through the looking glass, on a…

Regina Scully Recap for New Orleans Museum of Art Opening

In honor of the opening of Regina Scully: Japanese Painting: Inner Journeys at New Orleans Museum of Art, take a read through my Nola.com writeup of the showing of Scully’s 2012 Elemental series at Heriard-Cimino Gallery: (more…)

Take a read of my movie review of #LaLaLand:

– I’ve always loved the phrase “la la land.” It reminds me of my dad, who often used the moniker as he’d drive my family from the San Francisco Bay down the 5 and onto the 405. As we entered the land of palm trees, I’d envision the other passengers stuck in traffic next to me singing “la la la” as they waited not-so-patiently for the parking-lot freeway to pick back up again. For me this pet name…

Ready Player One Book Review

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ready Player One is as addicting as the virtual video game that it portrays. From chapter one, I was hooked. Not only do Cline’s descriptions of the real-world and virtually simulated planets jump to life as is I were plugged into my own OASIS console, his narrator Wade Watts aka Parzival, your classic poor, downtrodden hero with the brains…

Read my recently published fiction piece from "The Human Touch" journal on my blog!

I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Colorado for the first time, and fell absolutely in love with its snow-capped peaks, rustling Aspen, and the residents’ passion for the outdoors. But one of the most exciting parts of the trip was a pit stop at University of Colorado’s Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. No, this isn’t the story about a hiking trek gone terribly awry, this is a story of…

Recommended Readings from Yours Truly

Recommended readings from yours truly. Last week in the Expo Blog, I wrote the inaugural post to our latest series: Expo Recommends. In it, the editors of Exposition Review, myself included, tell you about some of our favorite readings. As a reader and a writer, these pieces inspired and moved me, and I hope they will do the same for you. Move these recommended readings to the top of your reading…

Put your #mantraoftheday in motion with this Surya Namaskar A sequence:

You’ve heard your yoga teacher say it hundreds of times: “link your movement with your breath.” This key mantra in the yoga practice is crucial to letting the prana, the breath, the life force soften into our bodies and minds. This mantra in motion combines the breath and movement of Syura Namascara A with a mantra to keep your yoga practice flowing. First off, how do you do Syura A? Inhale, from…

In need of something art-y to do this weekend? Catch @Hammer_Museum's latest round of exhibitions before they close. Mark Bradford, Mary Reid Kelley, and Joseph Holtzman.

Mark Bradford, “Lights and Tunnels,” 2015. Mixed media on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. The summer is slipping away, and with it Hammer Museum‘s latest round of exhibitions: Mark Bradford’s “Scorched Earth,” and Hammer Projects by Mary Reid Kelley and Joseph Holtzman which close on September 20 (Bradford and Holtzman) and September 27 (Reid Kelley). The exhibitions bring…

My latest musings on "Saving Gaza's only grand piano"

Musings on Tim Whewell’s “Saving Gaza’s only grand piano”

Listen to “Saving Gaza’s Grand Piano” on BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents: “When my eyes got used to the gloom of the Nawras Theatre in northern Gaza, I gasped at the scale of the destruction. A tangle of cables, twisted metal and broken lamps hung down like spilled entrails from the shattered ceiling. The luxurious scarlet seats were…

Total Yoga DVD Brings Flashback of James Turrell’s “Perceptual Cell”

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Finding myself with an afternoon hour to spare between work and class, I decided to crack open my favorite yoga DVD, by my gurus, Tracy Rich and Ganga White of White Lotus. Though I hadn’t followed the Total Yoga: The Flow Series “Fire” practice in quite some time, the DVD is one I’ve gravitated toward since I started doing…