At the risk of being predictable, I am facing this abbreviated week of Thanksgiving with thoughts of gratitude. I am, of course, grateful for a lot of the things that many of us will give thanks for on Thursday: family, friends, the ability to create and make and do…the ability to love and be loved. All of those things are the cornerstone of any other thing, large or small, for which I am grateful, every day of the year.Continue Reading
Tattoos — Memory, Meaning, and Connection
When I moved to New York City in the early ’90’s, tattooing was illegal. I remember feeling really curious about the second story parlors, the neon signs and flash art propped in the windows. Tattoos then had not quite hit the mainstream. There was still the air of subversiveness to them, helped no doubt, by the fact that just getting one in the five boroughs, regardless of size, subject matter or location, was an illicit act. Continue Reading