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Support an Artist While Spending Nothing

In: Career management, Opinion

One way to support an Artist is to buy art. If this isn't an option for you, there are costless ways to make a huge difference in an artist's career path. Any person who loves the art of an artist can make a huge difference.

Many people feel that supporting an artist beyond compliments and verbal encouragement is out of their reach if they don’t have money to buy artwork. While the best way to support an artist is to (buy art and) support their livelihood, here are a few things that are free, that make a huge difference to the artist you would like to support.

1. Share their work ~ Do you have a Facebook account? Twitter? StumbleUpon? Guess what - if you said yes, you also have a network outside of the reach of the artist you would like to help, and chances are your network and you share a lot of common

I am a Native European

In: Opinion, Self Reflection

Otherwise known as “White American” or Caucasian.

My contemporary struggle with cultural identity began with my husband and ended with my vacation to Europe. Over the span of nearly four years, I examined why my now-husband’s proximity to his (Native American) culture evoked jealousy behind the gratitude I felt for his happiness and sense of identity with his tribes and with the earth. I wanted an identity with the earth. I wanted to be close to a rooted ancestry group. I wanted what he had - but not exactly what he had. No matter how much I wanted, pleaded or begged, I wouldn’t be allowed in anyway. As I began to learn more about the

Bigger than Pink - actually being aware of Breast Cancer

In: Anecdotes, Opinion

Pink flags, pink clothes, pink pin-cusions, pink pink pink - how can it really claim to spread awareness while teaching nothing about the disease itself?

As you and I have both been bombarded with pink fabrics, billboards, store items, and apparel as far as the NFL, we both know that it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s a month that is either officially dedicated, or unofficially dedicated, (not quite sure here) to some particular cancer that women get in the breast, and that by buying said pink stuff or by being reminded of some cancer you’ll probably never get (or whatever, you might, but who cares?) you are being told by some charities and some other authorities that by just seeing or spreading pink in any way possible, you are

The Planet Earth: Amazon’s Earth Day gift

In: Opinion, Totally Random

It appears that for Earth Day only, Amazon is offering Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series [Blu-ray] for a mere $37.99 (down from $100) - here is why I love this series so much.

The Planet Earth BBC Series is on sale at Amazon today, Earth Day, only. Here is why I'm going to buy this:

• The footage covers surface of the earth, pole to pole, covering both the obvious and secret species.


• The narrator is a succinctly spoken British man, lending the series an aire of sophistication and drama. There's an American narrator version - this is not it.


• The coverage of the animals is at some of their most emotionally dramatic moments - migration, mating, famine, and fear.


• The program uses aerial shots and close-ups interchangeably to convey the space of movement and emotions

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