Donna Summer at Karate Camp
My memory of Donna Summer is from the 80′s– a class at Special Training, an annual women’s martial arts camp. The teacher, a charismatic and beautiful black woman named Tonie Harris, talked about living in the projects, and finding inspiration in a Bruce Lee film. She wanted to do that too, and fought her way [...]
Come to my Free 6-week Writing Workshop Using the Archetypes
Reblogged from Therapy with Kiersten Marek, LICSW: UPDATE: This workshop starts tonight! Looking forward to it! Innocent ❂ Wounded Child Warrior ❂ Caregiver Explorer ❂ Soul Mate ❂ Destroyer ❂ Artist Leader ❂ Guru ❂ Healer ❂ Fool “Creative Writing Through the Archetypes” a 6-Week Writing Workshop When: starting Thursday, April 5th, 2012, from 6:00 [...]
Urban Legends and Knowing What to Do in a Crisis
Your Kmareka correspondent is one of the few with the courage to say it out loud. I hate Christmas. I would gladly skip the whole thing for adults. Children should not be cheated out of their presents and Christmas joy of course, but let’s buy them some toys and the rest of us have cocktail [...]
Celebrity Debris
After running around to three libraries in the freezing cold all last week your Kmareka correspondent has been struck down with a sinus infection. I’m stuck in bed, reading a lot of Agatha Christie– mistress of distraction, storyteller extraordinaire. Her mysteries don’t actually make any sense, but who cares? I’m not up to anything that [...]
You Can’t Take the Sky From Me
The Year of the Rabbit is off to a good start. Joss Wheeden’s ‘Firefly’, the only TV worth watching with the exception of some PBS documentaries and most episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ has emerged from the black hole of series cancellation… (EW.com) — Browncoats rejoice: “Firefly” is returning to basic cable — and [...]
Gong Hei Fat Choy
I’m just back from Vermont–celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, which officially began on February 3, but is a ten day festival, so you can eat a chocolate bunny on Valentines Day if you want. Vermont has more snow than Rhode Island, and more fell every day. I learned how to make some Chinese recipes, [...]
Paul Di Filipo, Local Author
Just a short break from political spitball fights to praise a fellow Rhode Islander. Paul Di Filipo is a science fiction writer whose clever disguise as a regular guy you see walking around the East Side conceals great literary accomplishments… Paul Di Filippo is the author of hundreds of short stories, some of which have [...]
Good News for Inner City Art
It will be good to see the Black Rep space on Westminster St. open again… PROVIDENCE — A nonprofit arts group, led by well-known Rhode Island storyteller Len Cabral, plans to use the former Providence Black Repertory Company building at 276 Westminster St. for a café and performance space called the Westminster Roots Cafe. Cabral [...]
They’ll Outbreed Us
Truly, work is the curse of the blogging class, taking on a second job forces me to converse with carbon-based life forms in real time. But thank the gods that I can still do something in the material world, and get some bucks for it. Kmareka Multinational, LLC strives to corner the market in the [...]
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