Namaste blog tribe I've been fucking with this blah-g for six and a half years now. That's a hot minute. When I started it, I was at the end of a nine year marriage what was one of the saddest, most neglectful relationships I've ever endured. Then I left Australia after about a decade, and came back to a city I had to escape from a very long time ago for reasons outside of these parts. And she saved me, Manhattan picked me up, brushed me off...
Welcome to a piece of my history living Art. FollowMeToNYC is an art project that started 21 September 2009. I was bouncing out of a whack relationship and hustling to New York City after seven years in Australia, prepared to make my way writing. I landed in midtown Manhattan, where I spent eight years writing professionally for a couple global groups and some big finance cats. I put out three poetry books; lit up a few novels; and got married...
Namaste blog tribe You know, I remember starting this page with a broken heart and lack of a prayer on getting to New York City. Then I got here in a volcanic blast of emotion and life adjustment after spending ten years in another country. THEN I lost my job, I guess that was the official point of: alright, no more tears over exes... no more taking for granted how hard I work... onto the next one. Here's the next one: two prospects. Not just...
Namaste blog tribe It's been just around three months since I've been outside of New York City - nearly five months since my wonderful Writer job took a dive and sent me all sorts of places from a farm upstate to the woods of north-west Connecticut. And it's all about to change... My tenants depart on April 1st... I'M MOVING HOME! HELL'S KITCHEN HERE I COME!! Oh, and also, I LANDED A SUPER SEXY WRITER JOB THAT WILL SUSTAIN ME IN MIDTOWN ONCE...
As a Writer, I believe there's a lot of influence in one's surroundings. When I look over my work through the years, from New York, then Australia, back in New York and now upstate in the country - I can often feel the environments where each piece was born. There's merit to Residence programs when Artists dip to beautiful places to shed their ordinary space somewhere exceptional and see what comes. It's been nearly four weeks since I left...