I left home at age 14 when I moved from Massachusetts to Washington, DC, to attend the first school in the United States that offered ballet and academics under the same roof. I started each day with a ballet class, I went on to French and math class, I had another...

Yesterday, December 21st, 2019, was the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. We are presently getting only nine hours of sunlight each day and I think we all feel this in some way. You don't have to be spiritual to see the significance in...

A couple of days ago, I was at my local knitting store, La Knittierie Parisienne, on Ventura Boulevard, with my community of people who sit together for hours on end to practice our shared craft. I’ve come to really appreciate these women and men as time passes, a...

My friend, John McCrite, invited me to the Ahmanson Theater to a performance at of Swan Lake, re-choreographed and staged by Matthew Bourne in 1995. The original ballet with music by Tchaikovsky, premiered by the Bolshoi Company in 1877, is one of the most popular...

In May, 1992, there was a brutal police beating of an African American man named Rodney King. When the officers involved were acquitted in a trial, six days of riots broke out that resulted in 2,383 injuries and 63 deaths. In the midst of the riots, Rodney King held a...