Satsumabug Sampler

New to this blog? Curious about me, but don’t want to dig through the archives? I’ve put together this sampler to give you a taste of what to expect here.

During any given week, you might find:

• My own writing, including fiction
• Ample helpings of my photos and other visual art
• Work by guest artists
• Active conversations in the Comments section

In addition, I write constantly on the following:

My values and goals (what do I feel compelled to do with my life?)

• Life Is Not Art (an early manifestation of the Art of Life Handbook — scroll down to the handbook if you’d rather not read the whole thought process)
• My life list at 30 (I’m not a huge fan of the term “bucket list,” but that’s what this is)
• My Creative Autobiography, from a Twyla Tharp exercise
• Politics/Privilege
• On Goals

My fears and anxieties (what stops me in my tracks?)

• Mortality and the balancing act
• Existential loneliness
• I am authentic enough
• Breadth versus depth (precursor to embracing polymathy — and some good book recommendations)
• What does it take to make me work? (Answer: creative, idiosyncratic problem-solving!)

My margins and my personal history (where do I come from? what is the intersection of myself and normative?)

• Reframing privilege and value (and the later corollary, Invisible, parallel lives)
• Gender frustration: why I don’t have kids yet
• Asianness
• My family (also: a less serene side of our relationship)
• Body image for myself and my art
• My daily life
• What I like, and 7 random facts about me

Enjoy!

Sampler created June 2011, updated December 2011.