Vaccines are up, infections are down and masks are coming off. Huzzah! Of course, we want everything to be okay. The pandemic has been...

The end of the year is conventionally a time of reflection, taking stock and recalibration for a fresh start; but, then again, New Year’s...

On March 5, 2020 I woke up to a tickle in my throat. This scratchy feeling turned into a sore throat with a cough, body aches, chills,...

By: Jane Breckwoldt Perspective, simply defined means how we see. But “how we see” carries different meanings whether the perspective is...

REASONS FOR OPTIMISM We are being told that the political conventions opened the election season. Many of us feel like we suffered...

(Part 2) By Jane Breckwoldt When broaching the subject of misinformation in the world of art, the most prevalent and obvious is the use...

(Part 1) By William E. Newnam Given the massive proliferation of information access and opportunity, we are confronted with a world...

It’s really hot outside. The air is febrile with COVID, global warming, intolerance and revolution. At least the fireworks have finally...

Is there a word to recount the visceral confusion of being alive in this time? Fickle emotions splinters like brittle cracked glass....

We raise our fists in protest. We raise our hands in peace. We feel change burning in our hearts and in the streets and in the very...

The virus doesn’t care about your job. The virus doesn’t care about your parents or your children or your friends. The virus doesn’t care...

The outlook seems bleak. An allusion to a “Dark Ages”, that is a period of intellectual deficiency, social upheaval and barbarity, feels...

It’s a scary world out there. Anything could happen… We’ve always known this. So we’ve faced our dread; looked despair in the face;...

Every crisis (from the Greek "to separate, to sift") brings opportunity - a time to appraise and keep only that which is worth keeping....

The reality of our global troubles had become unnerving before COVID-19. Every day we’d wake up to news of growing inequalities, global...

In the early blush of the Information Age, we possessed naïve optimism that global connectivity and technological progress would be able...

We knew it was just a matter of time. As we have expanded into an interconnected global community, the potential for novel microbial...

The world we experience is not exactly the real world. Human experience is a mental construction, mediated though our physical senses....

In the United States, adults spend more than 11 hours a day consuming media in some form. On the Internet alone there are over 1.8...

Every artist has unique strategies, techniques and a process to sway the muse and flourish; however, the magic of inspiration and the...