My iPhone was snatched out of my hands. Stolen yesterday. I was on a MUNI train in San Francisco. I was helping an older gentleman next to me find some information online and was using my iPhone to do so when bam! The bus door opened, a “youth” grabbed the phone out of my hand…

As much as I’m not a practitioner of new year’s resolutions, I can understand them. And, I’m betting, a ton of folk have added to their list of resolutions for 2010, “Quit Smoking.” I’d like to tell my story about how I quit smoking. I smoked since I was a teenager. Always was a chipper (learned that term from Malcolm Gladwell’s…

It was a moment I couldn’t pass up. Traipsing through DC with a few hundred Santas, we’d just left the Lincoln Memorial and were en route to the White House when I saw it: THE photo opp of the day. Or century! See, as part of SantarchyDC, I’d done my best at interpretive Santa with a haute couture vintage…

I didn’t expect to be so taken. I didn’t expect to have such a deep response. I didn’t expect much of anything, really. See, I volunteered recently to help make yarn wigs for kids at — what was previously named — The Children’s Hospital. These particular kids who will get the yarn wigs are kids…

Few words I have for this right now. Dancing with light via Lorne’s Electric Heliotrope Theater was one of the most … well, watch the video and imagine how exquisite the experience probably was. The video can be a bit slow to load. Electric Heliotrope Theater – Dance 2 – JessieX from MediaDog on Vimeo.