The Cave

A secret library for $upporting $ubscribers only, a.k.a. my inner circle. Join us for $5 a month or less and get access to excerpts, full books, other exclusive content and special events. (Info on how to request a gift subscription is below.)

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Full Books

• Inside the Mills Revolution - cartoon journal of the 1990 Student Strike at Mills College, winner of the Bay Guardian Cartoon Contest

Excerpts

• Excerpts from The Winning Family

  • Building Self-Esteem (audiobook)

  • The Power (& Pleasures) of Play

• Excerpts from Ten Days, Ten Pounds 🥂:

  • Being Vesuviette

  • City of Masks

  • Pietá

Video Features

• The Virtues of Vintage Cookbooks: Fashionable Foods for Deco Dining (video essay/presentation) 🥫- lecture presented to Art Deco Society of California & Miami Design Preservation League

• The Dirndl Diaspora (feature length animated movie)🍺 - for Oaktoberfest in the Dimond

Video Shorts

• Destination: Disneyland (story slam) 🏰 - originally performed at Story Slam Oakland

• Walk-Off Pie (for Grieving A’s Fans) - home movie, Youtube fave

Short Stories

• Spirit of ‘76 🚌 - a family road trip in a 1966 VW van.

Essays

• School of Velocity - a meditation on piano playing and lost parents

Poems

• The Anointing👑 - original poem about the Muses

• The Ballad of Lotus LaRoux - a femme fatale meets her (lit) match.

Classes

• Fiberlicious! 🌽 - taking the guesswork out of healthy food choices

Printables

• Barbie, Queen of the Prom - extra player cards for the board game 👗

• A Kinder, Gentler Vaccination Technique - a PSA for parents and injection professionals

Woo

• My Human Design Chart 💫 - 5/2 MP for those of you who know what this is

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