How I Ended Up In Mendocino

July 29, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

So there was this guy. A shy, kind artist who worked in metal, lived by the ocean, had tons of friends, and also did an awesome job detailing cars. One day he drove four hours from his home to Ft. Bragg to deliver an enormous hanging sculpture-thingy to my best friend Virginia, who lived in my […]

Reclaimed Art & Chair Affairs

June 9, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

Three years ago I began “art-ing” chairs to raise funds for Art Center Ukiah, one of the sponsors of a downtown gallery where monthly poetry readings inspired me to begin writing poems again. I love the symbiotic synchronicity of engaging in one artistic form to support another. All my Art Chairs follow an oceanic theme; […]

Ethnobiology Film Festival!

May 7, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

We’re showing 20 animations, micro-documentaries, and biopics at the first-ever film festival at the 38th Society of Ethnobiology conference at University of California Santa Barbara. The films are produced by academicians, tribes, independent filmmakers, and practitioners, and include the debut of five films by my SJSU students. The entire 2015 program is available for free […]

TEDxSJSU 2015 at San Jose State University

May 4, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

On Monday, May 4th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM (California Time) we held our first TEDxSJSU event. See our program here. See the line-up of TEDx Talk videos here. (We’ll be posting the live talks from our fabulous speakers on the TEDx channel soon.)

And Flash Nonfiction

May 2, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Flash nonfiction is a way to tell true-to-life stories with intensity and brevity, usually in 500-750 words. I wrote a flash non-fiction piece on a whale coupled with a short video here.