Month: May 2021

  I walked into a Frida Kahlo retrospective at an Amsterdam Museum in 1981. I had never heard of her. The paintings took my breath away – the beauty, pain, rage, mystery, and urgency.  She demanded attention. She was not a casual artist. Her art cuts to the bone. Frida is an icon in México, …

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Back to the Pacific I grew up near the Pacific. I spent my first 22 years in San Diego. I didn’t live on the water, but I was close enough. My toes knew the sand. My body was at one with the waves. If there was an undertow (“under toad” in John Irving’s The World …

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