Monsanto won the game today. It's a very dangerous and Orwellian game. It is only a few ticks of the clock before Monsanto holds enough of the most important cards to decide who is truly allowed to eat and...who lives and who dies. Continue reading

Please help us find this missing cat, Dottie Bella Cooper. Let's use Social Media in our best way to help bring her home in Atlanta. Continue reading

I'm sharing here, not to say, "Oh look, I'm living my life, isn't it lovely?", but more because, well, this space feels like that old closet up in the attic at this point that's filled with old costumes that I used to wear, that I really love and would never, ever discard. Continue reading

See that beautiful person that you are right now and love her. Continue reading

My professor is part of that dream of mine. In the list of all of the things I wrote about the person I wanted to come share my life with me and my dogs, he ticked off every single item. My professor had no idea the list even existed, but into my life he walked, quite by accident, and then after just a mere 24 hours he announced that he was staying. Continue reading

"As much as I'd love to do that, we'll be late for the film. We need to go get dinner! I'm starving, aren't you starving?! But I love you for offering and I love you for noticing that the light was perfect and I love you for knowing that bodies are just bodies and they all need to be celebrated!" Continue reading

There's always room for more love. The more we give, the more we make. Love who you are. I do. For reals, I love you the most. Continue reading

I am the girl, as we know, who sits in dark theatres and watches all your stories unfold on the screen. My life would never be what it is without you, the beautiful, daring, creative souls who are willing to... Continue reading

There is the woman who hugs abandoned dogs fiercely, giving them shelter and food, knowing that those dogs love her just as much as she loves them. There is the lesbian couple who has loved one another for twenty-five years and rasied a family of beautiful children. There is the woman who brings warm cookies and knit hats to the internet friend she has never met until this moment in the hospital. Continue reading

I want to remind all of you, each and every one, women and men, both, that we can celebrate our own beauty, our own bodies, and that the bodies in these magazines are not exactly real. They really are just images of a preconceived notion, of the media's hopeful ideal. They are the result of digital manipulation and lots of plastic surgery. Continue reading

Moments. Connections. Convergence. Those are the reasons that those of us who festival, festival. I know this, I believe this, I get my soul re-charged every time I jump in and participate. Because we all really do participate. We're not simply observers standing on the edges, sitting in dark rooms with light flickering on the screens before us, the passionate years work of filmmakers unfolding before us, while they hold their breath and hope that we might just applaud their effort. No, we're collectively there to celebrate, to hope together that one more story might inspire us to perhaps be an even better version of ourselves. Continue reading

So, Sundance. It started. The professor smacked right into Robert Redford yesterday while I was guiding him to all things festival. You just don't really smack right into Robert Redford these days, so obviously it was just kismet and, well, my professor has certainly now done Sundance. He can go home. Continue reading

Being limited to only 140 characters for expression was ridiculously impossible for me. I also bristled, openly, vociferously, at the rules. Rules, as I've always said, are made precisely to be broken. Especially the ones that are created to cause us to conform, to keep us in a box. Continue reading

Alex Fossgreen is also someone's son, someone's brother, a beloved best friend to many and is currently missing. Last Friday, in the very early morning hours, he walked out of his home in Scotts Valley with just a backpack and little else, leaving behind his cellphone. He did take his passport and some cash, but not his bank card. He did not say goodbye or leave a note. Continue reading

Bothered by the beets, I then decided that we'd all be better off if we could invest in Marijuana. Because, you know, it's now legal in some parts of this country and why not be a real and true transparent evangelist and go ahead and INVEST in what will ultimately perhaps save this pretty blue planet? Continue reading

1. What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before? I trusted the professor and my own heart, more importantly, and moved the dogs and all my stuff in with him and lilsalty. There were adjustments. There will... Continue reading

there is snow falling today. lots of it. i have arctic snow boots on my feet. Continue reading

My pony these days is hot pink, has lots of glitter, sings and dances and has the most incredible eyelashes you have ever seen. Continue reading

Namaste. Continue reading

I am tempted to ask how can it get any better than this? The thing is, I know it absolutely can and will! Life is just beautiful just like that. Continue reading

This, friends, is how you schedule a Nakedjen Film Festival. Continue reading