

Jungles in Paris, Off Assignment & Me
I'm performing - not my own but someone else's - work at this Evening of Travel Films & Stories tonight. Off Assignment is launching an interesting Letter to a Stranger series, while Jungles in Paris does one of my favorite things of all times - documentary photography and filmmaking about travel! #Travel #Film #photo #writing #storytelling #letters #JunglesinParis #OffAssignment #WeWork #global #stranger


Book Trailer for my first vlog post
I thought I'd share the book trailer-in-progress for my memoir-in-progress, TWINS: AN AFRO-VIKING EPIC. In preparation for the graduate seminar in Digital Storytelling I'm teaching at California College of the Arts, I took a weekend workshop at StoryCenter (formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling) in Berkeley; this was my homework. It was created on WeVideo, an open-source platform similar to Final Cut, but clunkier. It does interface super-easily with Google Classroom a


First blog post on revamped website, first Rumpus essay!
I'm super excited to announce that my long-awaited essay about our 25-year courtship and wacky, cross-cultural marriage - which grew out of Facebook posts liked by ALL OF YOU - was published in The Rumpus Wednesday! The illustrations come from a shorter, PowerPoint version - which, coincidentally, I'd performed for the Radar Queer Reading Series (established by Michelle Tea at the San Francisco Public Library) - the night before. And you'll see from the slide below that I was