Studio executives are mainly to blame for green-lighting projects that no one has asked for. Vanity projects and tone deafness are responsible for many box office misfires. Steven Spielberg has said in many interviews that his West Side Story remake was something he had wanted to film for years. Many…

Inviting oil company CEOs to any climate change solutions conference is like asking Pennywise to babysit your children. Or letting a fox guard your hen house. — As world leaders, activists, and CEOs descend upon Glasgow, will anything be accomplished? On top of combating greenwashing from “big oil”, the mission of COP26 is being diluted by a deluge of “performatives” whose sole mission is posting their schmoozing pictures from COP26 where they can be seen on Instagram like a weekend at Coachella. …

If you have ever put candy corn in your mouth to make vampire fangs as a kid, this is for you. So, where my candy corn people at? The official candy of October had been slandered, and I must object. A few weeks ago when I read the tweet, my…

Thanks to my wonderful Mom for teaching us this thing of beauty. September 23 is International Day of Sign Language. Some of you may know from my writing that I come from a family of musicians and teachers. My Mom was both musician and a Special Education teacher. ASL was…

Inspired by a Poem By Teressa P, inspired by Lucy Dan What does kindness mean to me? I’ll look inside my heart to see. Kindness is a quality that elicits wonderful emotions from its receiver and its giver. Genuine kindness is not to be confused with the performative version that…

It’s a weird time of year If I am being honest. Not weird in a bad or eerie way. Weird in a weird sort of way. August has always been like a yearly fork in the road. Growing up, the end of summer was about going back to school. Summer…

Celebrating the life, legacy, and luminosity of the great Nichelle Nichols. The woman was legendary. When my sisters and I first set our eyes on the woman of color who sat on the bridge of the USS Enterprise, we were awestruck. Her character, Lt. …

“Time and tide wait for no man.” -Geoffrey Chaucer We are gifted with time every day. That’s the good news. The not-so-good news is that time is often squandered and taken for granted. Time is lost and cannot be retrieved. When I stepped out of the rat race, I reflected…