I am always fascinated with our brain and the mysterious way it works. Most of us know so very little about it. Whenever I come across a book talking about the human brain, I have to pick it up. Then I just can’t put it down and get enough of it. The very fact that I recently lost someone close […]

I have been keeping the book of poetry by Mary Oliver,  “The Leaf and the Cloud,”  for a while now, open, on my kitchen counter, on my dining room, and on my night stand. I turn its pages, read them, and re-read them daily, like a prayer. I ask myself, Could it really be true, that I am […]

During this pandemic, I have been painting on paper and canvas. A lot of exciting things happened when I was watching the paint on my canvas dry. Acrylic paint drys really fast. They are actually not really my favorite because of the plastic texture and feeling to it. Oil paint, on the other hand, takes time to dry, is rich, has depth, […]

MAHVASH MOSSAED In Mahvash Mossaed’s paintings, the viewer can witness the complex and yet simple relationship between darkness and light as an attempt to look through the energy and the motion of what is around, beneath, and beyond us here as a physical matter. In her paintings, the artist and her brush unite together to […]

You might ask, “Who reads poetry?” My answer to that would be, “I do!” Just the other day, I was reading an interview with Rita Dove in The New York Times that raised my interest to go and purchase her latest book of poetry, Playlist for the Apocalypse, which happens to be just released — […]