The Beacon
Radio host writes of her journeys
The new BookNotes Review on WBJC
Last month, I added a mid-month component to BookNotes, highlighting some of the new releases that catch my eye each month. Please click on the link for more.
Behind the scenes with Sasha Cooke
After a fair amount of back and forth, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke's publicist and I managed to find a time when I could call her to talk about her CD how do i find you? and the spin-off recital, which she is presenting at Baltimore's premier chamber music series,...
“Old New Worlds” home at last
As my jetlag recedes and I sift through the highlights of a magical trip back to Africa, I feel such a sense of "rightness" about Old New Worlds have been given a home—finally—in the place where she is so rooted. I am beyond grateful to Christy Weyer and Liberty Books...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA, on Tuesday, January 15th in 1929, becoming a national icon in the civil rights movement in America and around the world—including my native South Africa during apartheid. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,...
The artist, Paul Klee, as musician
The highly individualistic artist, Paul Klee, was born in Switzerland to a German music teacher and a Swiss mother. He studied voice, piano, organ, and violin at the Stuttgart Conservatory, and, at the age of 11, he became a member of the violin section of the Bern...
The December podcast of my Booknotes series on WBJC
The tradition of Jolabokaflod is relatively new to me, but it's one I adore. Every year since World War II, when paper was one of the few things not rationed in Iceland, Icelanders have given books for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, they exchange books and then sit in...
Winter Newsletter 2021
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami Picking up the theme of a recent blog post, Concentric circles within the Baltimore writing community, my starting point for this seasonal...
Concentric circles within the Baltimore writing community
Rafe Posey was a name I heard when I was pursuing my MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore—though his concentration was fiction, whereas mine (at that stage) was creative nonfiction—and so I was interested to see his name pop up...
Carefully venturing into art exhibitions again …
"It was your work that filled my life." Etta Cone to Henri Matisse, 1948 Listen to curator, Katy Rothkopf, cover these marvelous exhibitions in four minutes by clicking on the link below!...
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