Instead of Swan talk, I’m attaching an announcement about the recent death of my dear friend and mentor, Julia Miles, founder of The Women’s Project and Productions in New York City in the 1980’s.
Zoom the Miracle and a Few Others
I’ve always been comfortable with what I think is my healthy dose of vanity. Don’t we all need it to enjoy our blessings?
The Good News
We’re learning—in small towns, in countries, in continents—the lessons we desperately need if we are going to survive… not only this crisis, but the far greater looming crisis of global climate disruption.
That Sweet Little Breeze
For all of us who have bad moments in the dark of night, try opening a bedroom window…
Brace Up
As we advance into—and, I hope, through—various stages of panic and hysteria because of the virus, I am reminded of what the British went through during the German Blitz in World War Two.
In A Dark Time
How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women’s History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan…
Doris Duke is Born
What do I hope my biography will accomplish? Nothing less than a complete reconsideration of Doris Duke.
Part Time Dancer
I’m so carried away when I dance that I sing along with the music and hardly know or care where I’m putting my flying feet.
The Wild West
For Taos, a small town in the Rocky Mountains near Santa Fe, another snow means first of all figuring how to move around… but there are other stories.
What Was Cut
I suppose it’s a stretch—but then what is the point of writing without stretching?—but I think if Doris Duke had known about Julian Abele’s work, she would have admired him and regretted that during his life time, he was never given his due.