A Musician’s Health, And Magic At Home: A Conversation With John Largess
~~~~~ Question of the day: what are you doing to keep yourself healthy and, on top of that, to expand your horizons even though you may…
Baby Mine: Tim Burton’s Dumbo (Now, Then, And Revisited In May 2020)
~~~~~~ In November 2019, I started this essay by with the following opening paragraph: “Reviews are in for Tim Burton’s 2019 version of Dumbo and I am…
Just One Tear: Alan Rickman, Professor Snape, And Dante Alighieri
~~~~~ The figure of Professor Snape, both written and onscreen, captured the imaginations of all who experience his commanding presence, his anger, his slow cadenced speech,…
Seeing the Dappled Light, and Discovering: A Conversation with Prentiss Douthit
~~~~~ Painting should call out to the viewer… And the surprised viewer should go to it, as if entering into a conversation. –Roger de Piles, Cours…
Harry Potter, Herbology, and Chinese Herbs: How Learning to Love Herbal Study is Good for Me and Great for my Patients
~~~~~ Before I started my program at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine I was fairly typical in that I thought of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)…
Two Hearts Wellness @Alamo Drafthouse: Hell or High Water (A True Romance)
~~~~~ Today I saw the movie Hell or High Water for the second time. When I left the theater, the server–I think his name was Drew–said,…
Bodies: Exploration, History, Text, and Photograph
*** Just like anything else, notions related to the body bear repeated viewings and engagement from different perspectives. Unthinkingly, we get up in the morning and…
