Arts & Culture
13 Favorite Holiday Songs
While all music captures our human experience, holiday music to me addresses the mystery of life and our longing for joy and redemption in a very special way. It was difficult to choose ones for this list, but these are the some I can put on repeat and never tire of....
Alternatives to the Same Old Hallmark Christmas Movie!
We all have the guilty indulgence of watching those syrupy sweet Hallmark Holiday Movies of which there is a never ending supply. But if you are tired of the same scenarios, the predictable plots and the sweetly dull characters where here three European...
Updated Lackawanna County COVID-19 Creative Community Resources
Lackawanna County Covid-19 Creative Community Resources guide has been updated to include the link to the application for self-employed and gig workers to apply for unemployment, new grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a sheet and...
4.13.2020 Updated Lackawanna County Creative Community Resources
2020.04.13 Lackawanna COVID-19 Creative Community Resources guide has been updated to include some new funding opportunities including: the Scranton Area Foundations Women in Philanthropy programs, The Giant Company emergency funds for Pennsylvania food chain supply...
Lackawanna County COVID-19 Creative Community Resources
This photo is art work using altered digital images by local artist Constance Denchy from a series on the COVID-19 experience and was included in the first ever digital First Friday this past April 3.It was great to see the innovation of the First Friday organizers...
Top Ten Quotes I Heard at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Conference
This past year I was appointed to the National Association of Counties (NACo) Arts Commission. It has been a great experience to represent the county where I grew up, Lackawanna, in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and learn so much from those working in county...
Seeking the Still Spaces or Why I Chose a Rothko Calendar for 2019
I flip the calendar over to February. January has vanished. Most of the Christmas decorations around town are finally down, although a few scraps of green and red peer sheepishly from a roof or yard. The fervor of New Year’s resolutions have either completely burned...
Sometimes You Just Need Chopin
There are days of loneliness with solo travel. And if you’ve left to escape something, its specter will inevitably appear with a menacing grin, and breathe down your neck, as a chilly November fog rolls in over the beautiful northern, Italian city you are walking...
January Fashion Moment: A Jacket, Blue Shirt & Some Cuff Links
I am happy we live in an era where fashion is gender fluid, and focused on personal style versus following strict rules and trends. The woman who is my personal style icon is Katherine Hepburn. She blurred boundaries and her look was timeless, simple, classy and...
Spring at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
We step off the subway welcomed by a blue and white mosaic with the neatly tiled words Lincoln Center 66th. This was my third trip with my mother to the Metroplitan Opera aka know affectionately at "The Met." We were going to see Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci or...
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