Art

Few of us really know the impact we are having on others — I t was a bone cold night in January, four hours after my wife and kids had gone to bed and I was sitting alone in my man cave with nothing but a laptop and the painful recognition that even though I had written five books, created a successful company…

My role model, my soul mate. Frida Kahlo. Frida always went without makeup and showed little of her body. She did not correct her eyebrows or her lady’s beard. She did not wear high heels or cleavage. Her body was crippled by her accident, because she had been “impaled” —…

Decoding a rare painting with a lesson to impart — Here’s a rare and intriguing painting. It shows two women in a double portrait. One is Black, the other is white. Their postures and station appear in parallel. They look out to us side-by-side, both with the same high fashion, wearing pearl necklaces and finely-woven dresses. Two aspects of this…

“Trauma bonds are emotional bonds with an individual that arise from a recurring, cyclical pattern of abuse perpetuated by intermittent reinforcement through rewards and punishments. The process of forming trauma bonds is referred to as trauma bonding or traumatic bonding.” The colour of our eyes, and the shade of our…

15 years ago, I picked up a camera. I haven’t put it down since. — This month marks 15 years since I started taking photos. So I thought I’d share my story since every photographer has a different one to tell. It’s also nice to look back at this journey and reminisce. As my fellow photographers know, the journey of photography is a rocky one…

Here’s another one of those music challenges — Medium Writing challenges are always fun — and what better time for a writing challenge than the weekend? My Medium mate Jennifer Barrios Tettay came up with a spicy little challenge this weekend: choosing songs representing our name’s initials. I was intrigued by Jennifer’s selection — I consider myself pretty…