May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before I was taken to my jail cell, the guards made me undress and put on ‘blues’. My new wardrobe. Criminal pajamas. Then one of them taunted me by loudly spitting out from over his desk, “Hope you don’t have claustrophobia!” I did have a fear of enclosed spaces and...
Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Where do you find your power and strength?” That’s what sculptor and musician Lonnie Holley asks on the placard by this wonderful mixed media sculpture. His piece is called “Supported by the Power” and I’ve seen it many times at...
Apr 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
My mom, dad, and I were all in a patient waiting room in Minneapolis. A small room in an area of the children’s hospital. I was cold, wearing nothing but a thin, paper hospital gown. It was the late 80s and I had turned 15 the day before. Half my head was shaved...
Mar 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
The day I killed and skinned 69 chickens in a ship’s graveyard on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is why I stopped eating birds when I was 18. It was late May and my friend Jeff and I flew from Seattle to Anchorage to “go fishin’”. Jeff was a very smart, 19-year-old...
Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve been playing piano since I was about four years old. My grandparents, who lived in Nebraska, had an upright piano in their den. I used to climb up onto the piano bench and make up music. I had no formal training and no idea what I was doing, because, to me, I...
