Crusade

  • Keeping the Silence!

    Was it really just one week ago that I met David Cowardin and heard the about the documentary- "Call Me Mental"?  It has been a roller coaster week with journeys back to the past and dreams of the future, memories… Continue reading

  • Beyond Faith

    I went back to my old church today…and I brought my new friend.   A cold and blustery day.  It matched my feelings. Who would have thought that someday, I would return…with a photojournalist. Trying to capture how this religion… Continue reading

  • I Love My Team!

    This morning I thought of doing a montage of folks who have helped bring awareness to My Lady…my art and backstory.  Those who have helped her enter into the public arena.  The brilliance of the Art is juxtapositioned with the… Continue reading

  • The Mic is Open.

    "Art is both therapy and tragedy. Somewhere in the mix lies hope for humanity. That is the foundation of our work … the intangible hope that pulls us toward some horizon we spend every day trying to explain, knowing that… Continue reading

  • All of You!

    Day two of filming "Call Me Mental"  It is hard to articulate the process for it is Art in the making…and you are just a piece of a bigger picture…and yet how you present yourself will add or take away… Continue reading

  • How I came to be…

    First day of filming done….and actually David was here for the morning.  He was wonderful wonderful!  Kind, curious, attentive and very creative, quiet, responsive, and open.  The perfect photojournalist for me!  Thanks Chad Johnson for connecting us! He wanted a… Continue reading

  • Breaking the Silence of Denial.

    The good news about having such a short time to 'prepare' for the filming, is that there is no time to prepare….so you don't have to.   The normal response is how do I look and how does my home… Continue reading

  • “I am Mental”

    And, Alice Miller again!   "If I succeed in making even a few people aware of how the victimization of children is concealed by placing the blame on them, then all the misunderstandings and reproaches for being one-sided that I… Continue reading

  • Comfortable being you!

    In the past few days, from a variety of people and experiences, I have witnessed the word "Worry" in action.  I had to see what the true meaning of the word is. "Worry" - give way to anxiety or unease; allow… Continue reading

  • Behind the Art.

    "It may still be decades or even centuries before humankind stops regarding the knowledge stored up in the unconscious as immaterial, as pathological fantasies of the insane or of eccentric poets, and comes to see it for what it really… Continue reading