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Writing Until My Walls Come Down
Cover Design: Matthew Fielder My family story wasn’t something I discovered when I started writing Until the Walls Come Down.  I first...
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Carrying Home: Desert Echoes Across Continents (Travel Log: West US Part 4)
Red and white dust in the Grand Canyon. Photo: Guy Podjarny When we visited the Grand Canyon, we hiked a little below the rim (a little...
Jun 54 min read


Growing With Fire: Healing Lessons from Sequoias (Travel Log: West US part 3)
Cross section of a sequoia healing process. Each tiny ring represents a year The trail through Mariposa Grove is no El Capitan. Still, we...
May 294 min read


Exploring the Grand Canyon and Yosemite Valley: My Journey of Self-Discovery
The Grand Canyon, a little below the rim. Photo by Guy Podjarny The Vastness of the Landscape One of the strongest experiences I had...
May 223 min read


Travel Log: Art and Money in Las Vegas (US West part 1)
Spring art at the Bellagio. Photo by Guy Podjarny What surprised me the most about Las Vegas was the abundance of art. I had all kinds of...
May 154 min read


Travel Log: Family Dance Through the American West (Series Intro)
American Badlands. Photo credit: Guy Podjarny Driving through the Badlands of the West US, the teenagers listening to music on their...
May 83 min read


Liminal Voices: Beyond the Myth of Outsider Art
Photo by Kai Oberhäuser on Unsplash It’s almost a cliché, the starving, struggling artist whose ideas are so outside the mainstream that...
May 13 min read


Breaking the Rules of Play
Image by chrismetcalfTV on Flickr I’ve been working with The Artist’s Way for a few years now and recently completed a fourth round (I...
Apr 243 min read


Voices in My Ear: Podcasts, Productivity, and Creativity
Image from Wix Media Podcasts are now considered a mainstream medium, and it is definitely the way many young people consume media. I’ve...
Apr 34 min read


Talking About Books
TL;DR: It’s okay, you don’t have to. In his book, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read , the French literature professor and...
Mar 274 min read


Uncovering: Reflections on Jewish Identity After Cabaret
Photo by Kyle Head on Unsplash Watching the musical Cabaret with the inimitable Marisha Wallace as Sally Bowels and Damon Gould as the...
Mar 203 min read


Frozen Art, Flowing Artist
Image from Wix Media When I was fifteen or so, I was one of the music kids. I sang in a couple of bands that mostly included different...
Mar 133 min read
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