A decade ago, I had turned thirty. I had completed my training. I had entered the workforce. Adulthood had begun. I had hopes. I had aspirations. Instead I met failure. I met disappointment. In reflecting on the past decade today and crafting a vision for the next I intend to be kinder to myself. I […]
Slave Play – Broadway: An Opinion
So I experienced Slave Play at the John Golden Theatre yesterday, and I’m still processing. But given that it took me forever to process Fairview, I have decided to just get my thoughts out there and not add to my “to blog” backlog. Where to start? Basics! Slave Play, which opened on Broadway in September […]
The White Gaze in Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview came to the Wooly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington D.C. Having enjoyed the last play I watched there I was eager to attend. Fairview is a play centered on a “regular” middle-class black family preparing to celebrate Grandma’s birthday at home. The mother is frazzled wanting everything to […]
“She The People”: A Review
It’s not always that I have a laugh-out-loud Tuesday evening. But that’s exactly what the fearlessly hilarious women of The Second City’s “She The People: The Resistance Continues!” delivered this week at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC. “She The People” is an intelligent improv and sketch comedy featuring a diverse but all-female cast that […]
Seville Cathedral
The Seville Cathedral (Catedral de Sevilla) is also known as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Santa Maria de la Sede Cathedral). It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. It was built in the 1400s over a hundred years. Like many other Christian […]
Two Days in Granada, Spain
My trip to Andalucia began in Granada. Well, I actually flew from Dublin to Malaga with the full intention to catch the last ALSA bus from the airport to Granada. Of course I missed it by just minutes because of a delay in the flight. These Spanish buses run on time! I allowed myself to […]
Boys Will Be Boys & Girls Just Have To Deal With It
Growing up in the 1980s in communist East Berlin our filmography came from decades past. Joy came from actors such as Terence Hill & Bud Spencer and Louis de Funès who my sisters and I affectionately called Big Nose. Inger Nilsson’s Pippi Langstrumpf showed us spunk, strength, and common sense. But then there was the […]
World Cup 2018 – No Russia For Me
FIFA World Cup 2018 has come and gone. Unlike the past tournaments in South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014) I did not travel to Russia to be part of the celebrations. That was a very conscious decision. You can say I’m still traumatized from my ordeal with THE BOYS. But the thought of going to […]
Burning Man Exhibit At Renwick Gallery
The first Burning Man in 1986 saw Larry Harvey and his friend Jerry James building and burning an effigy of a man on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. There are multiple explanations for the why. Since then Burning Man has become a global community and a unique creative festival that attracts over 75,000 people to Nevada’s […]
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad, published in 2016, is a critically acclaimed novel by Colson Whitehead. It won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, an […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.