Category: reflection
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A record of the ERA
We all have subjects that spur passion within us. We all have hobbies. Parisian Phoenix’s art director Gayle Hendricks has always been keenly interested in and a defender of women’s rights, ecology and the environment, the arts, and good type. Gayle lives in her childhood home. Like many people who…
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Phillipsburg Comic Con
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Phillipsburg Comic Con with my children’s book illustrator Joseph Swarctz promoting the Echo City Capers books. Joe trained at the Joe Kubert School in Dover, N.J., which if you are a fan of the comic book scene, you probably recognize as the place where comic book illustrators are born. To me,…
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A night at the movies
Last night Eva Parry and I attended the public screening of Lafayette College‘s DOC 250, a class on documentary filmmaking that is part of the college’s Film and Media Studies program. The course has one of the longest descriptions in the FAMS catalog: DOC 250/Documentary Storymaking Bridge places students’ original documentary projects at…
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The Mad Lib reality of time (and other tidbits)
I am due to write my next weekly newsletter on Substack and like many creatives, I have a variety of commitments in the air that I think I have control of but then I realize that a [insert whatever amount of time here] has passed and [something] is not on…
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The Power of a Book Plate
So yesterday, I spent the afternoon with author and friend William Prystauk, who, while he does not publish novels with us, contributes to every project and event where I extend him an invitation (Easton Book Festival, Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money, and Juicy…
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