Life Mining by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm + Why love blogs? + Podcast

Image of Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm by her friend, artist/poet/writer Đinh Trường Chinh, whose work is featured throughout Trâm’s site.

Does or did starting a blog scare you?

Pro-Age Flamenco + AIDS + Iran + Books + Podcast: M. Alfieri on Story

Titling over photo of Flamenco dancers Elisabeth Fruth and Alina Coman Coman-Rodriguez.

Were you around to remember or hear about AIDS in the 1980s? Then or now, what’s your most potent impression?

Vids: Let’s Dance + Do Better: S.D.Jones + Podcast: N.Socha Plays Blind

Photo of Shira Destinie Jones: Author, Educator,. Activist.

What's a problem you think people need to know more about?

For fun’s sake by da-AL

Do you love writing, paper, dancing, cookies, creativity, and cuteness too?...

Flamenco Fusion

Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam respectfully and lovingly fuses dance cultures.

"Flamenco & the Sitting Cat" is the title of the first of my soon-to-be self-published novels. The 'Sitting Cat' part of the title refers to the geographical shape of Iran... I grew up with only classical music -- and flamenco music and dance. My father, who left Barcelona in his mid-20s, wanted it that way.… Continue reading Flamenco Fusion