A visual response I sent to a friend after we had a silly, heated July 4th discussion over why I prefer tea to coffee in the morning, because he reproached me as an un-American Anglophile.
Lunar energy of water and Solar energy of youth.
Spontaneous street photo.
Tais-toi et sois belle (French for ‘shut up and be pretty’) was the adage that shaped my upbringing. The expectation was clear: to become a woman, one must be pleasing and appeasing. My mother, adhering to this doctrine, taught me that I must always be prepared to smile so that others would find me…
When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, we used to visit our grandparents in Los Angeles each summer. They would take us down to Muscle Beach in Venice to watch the bodybuilders and buy us Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirts, making us feel like the strongest kids in the world.
That memory always…