MAKING ART AN ESSENTIAL PART OF LIFE
Ever since I was an art student, I had a burning question in the back of my mind: What does all this have to do with the real world?

There's something so useless about studying art and culture. Sure, now I can explain a post-expressionist piece to vacant eyes and a disinterested mind, ...

THE PAINTER'S LOVER

She would stand there still as a statue and I would draw her soft skin on my rough canvas. It's always the challenge: How do I draw on a a coarse canvas fabric, with a gritty piece of coal, and still have her skin look as delicate as thin glass. The result always astounded me. I don't know how I accompl...

RETURNING THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE

I remember the thrill of publishing my first blog post. Clicking on that "Publish" button, for the first time, was more exiting than slipping my first voting ballot into the voting box (that's how we do it down here, in rural Israel). Seeing my article on my blog was a rush like no other:...

Size Matters

I was a nurture gal, myself (still am in most issues), but one night I saw a short TV program that changed my whole belief system, pertaining the gender issue.

Some of you may have heard about David Reimer. For those of you who haven't, David was born Bruce Reimer, one of two identical twins. Urination comp...

I'm not even American, but what the hell, I'll give it a shot:

I'm Israeli born, and if ever there was a country that its existence relied on its national identity, Israel is it. I moved to Seattle, Washington, when I was seven years old, and spent the second and third grade in Briant Elementary School. I vividly remember ...

Laughter is Your Voting Ballot

Sometimes political humor is tasteless, but that's because it isn't really political. Poking fun of Jr. Bush's untalented attempts at public speaking is not political humor . It's below the belt and has no real political value. But Jay Leno saying "I hear the Iraqis are in need of a constitut...

I was always a person with creative tendencies. Some people called me talented (I call it skill). The problem was, there are so many activities a creative person can do, to express his or herself, that I just couldn't choose! So, in order to choose, when I finished high-school, I took a year off, before going to college, to ...