The Inviting Life

Throughout my life,  individual and collaborative works of art  have inspired, enlivened and imbued my life with deeper resonance.  My passions are not relegated to a single genre.  I am an omnivorous consumer of all facets of the cultural diaspora, movies, music, comics, books, TV, photographs, and paintings.   My intention in creating The Inviting Life is to share recommendations based on my explorations of pop-culture and art house ephemera. Some selections will be high-brow, others low-brow, a few will fall resolutely in-between. Interspersed amongst these writings there will be recipes. It may seem incongruous, combining cultural criticism (criticism being somewhat of a misnomer as I am 90% enthusiast and 10% critic) and food-writing but I would argue that there is more than one way to find sustenance in this world. We can nourish ourselves in ways both elemental and spiritual. And, if   I cannot chat about these things in real time with you dea...

        This summer I took a  short break from Facebook. During my sojourn, I thought long and hard about whether I should retain some sort of online presence and if so, what should that ideally be?  I haven't always been my best self on Facebook and, while I have endeavored to improve my communications by keeping my caustic wit and misanthropy in check and avoiding time-wasting arguments, I often wondered if I was truly contributing anything meaningful or if I was merely being solipsistic and narcissistic.        Prior to my mini-break, I had been trying to wean myself away from screens with varying degrees of success. I  sit down at the computer for a couple of minutes here or there throughout the day.  Cumulatively, those minutes add up.  For a while  I gravitated to Twitter but I quickly tired of the Twitterverse (the woke hand-wringing does get to be a bit much, even for me, a died in the wool "leftie l...