I had one goal this summer: to do a fundraiser supporting Planned Parenthood in honor of my Mom, Anita Jaffe Seyler, an ardent supporter. My intention was to use the watercolors from my It’s My Body series which consists of 5×7” watercolors depicting a woman in her multiple personas: nurturer; justice of the peace; beautiful;…
Athena and her devoted followers, the AthenaIsts, guard the prison where three cheetahs have been caged for crimes of lying and being deceitful under oath.
In this drawing, the golden haired goddess Athena stands with her hand over her heart on her pedestal in the beaming sun as butterflies dot the pure blue sky and birds perch on the tree. There are roses and tulips growing all around, but all is not perfect. The dark gray arch in the pedestal…
Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and Strength arises on a small patch of garden to guard her property- her house which stands amidst green and foliage and leaves – the abundance of the earth – to withstand all evils that try to encroach! This drawing was a response to the Supreme Court’s evisceration of a…
Before the Alito leak, it was inevitable that Roe v. Wade was to be banished from the legal canon of citable law. The nominees to the Supreme Court lied through their teeth to get their personal beliefs exalted above the will of the people: proving only that deceit succeeds. A Donald Trump legacy. They are…
On Saturday July 9 I attended the BANS OFF OUR BODIES rally at Springwood Park put together by the Asbury Park Women’s Convention., “APWC”, @apwomensconvention. I tip my hat to the organizers and speakers, women, men, bi, trans etc. from 17 to 85 united in a cause for dignity, kindness, compassion: to ensure a woman…
When I allow my brain to process what the demise of Roe v Wade means I become physically ill. By overturning a woman’s right to make decisions about her body during the first trimester of pregnancy, the Supreme Court has slapped every Woman in the face. It used its power to make the law of…
The mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022 is a deja vu of August 3, 2019 when a man carrying a rifle walked into a Walmart parking lot in El Paso, Texas and spewed bullets. He killed 23 people and injured another 26. At the time of the El Paso mass murder, the…
The permanent status of coronavirus living for the last 18 months has me feeling discombobulated and unattached. My head and my heart are not in communication because if I think too much my heart breaks and if I feel too much my brain implodes from fires and floods and the playpen politics of the U.S.…