An International Premiere After Many Months At Home
It’s rainy late November here in Portland OR, and I’m still a little jet-lagged…just back from an incredible two-stop tour in Europe, performing music and screening a film, the sort…
A New Girls in Trouble Song (Esther!) & A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff Festival Premiere!
First, in the waning hours of the Purim holiday, I am delighted to share that ESTHER IS HERE! It took me years to find a way in to the young…
On Forgiveness and Paradox
(context: I wrote this as a Yom Kippur teaching/sermon this year; I was assisting a rabbi friend who was leading services for a beautiful little congregation in New York State.)…
Forget the word “inevitable” (a sermon of sorts)
Dear ones: I write from a Portland which has been blanketed in smoke from the forest fires for the past week, and a world mourning the passing of Justice RBG….
Homeschool: Black Mountain College (art, music and dance) for kids
Hi everyone! In the world that jumped off the tracks two months ago, I would have been performing at the Faith in Arts Institute at UNC-Asheville and the Black Mountain…
art in a new reality
What does it mean to be an artist in this time of pandemic? It’s different for everyone; here is a glimpse into my world. In the morning I home-school my…
We wrapped production on our film!
We recently wrapped production for A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: The Film, and wow has it been a journey. (And the journey is just beginning – we’ll be in post production…
Fruit Geode Fall Tour (with my four-year-old roadie)
Fruit Geode, my second book of poetry, was published this fall! On the left, here’s Fruit Geode between the lavender and rosemary in my garden… and, on the right, amazingly,…
Help make *A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: The Film* a reality!
I believe that all life is creative. That creativity lies not only in making “art” per se, but in the countless small decisions every single day: the way we appreciate…
a guide to Jewish themes in “Divinity School”
Hi friends, People have been writing me recently asking about using my poetry book, Divinity School, as a teaching tool in spiritual study, teaching or prayer settings. I’m a huge…