Being Breezie

Being Breezie is the work of an aspiring Renaissance woman. As an art historian, writer, entrepreneur, and yogi, among other things, I use this as a space to share my musings on the beauty I enjoy every day and in every experience. As a former San Franciscan and New Orleanian and a current Los Angeleno, much of what I write is centered around those cities and other places that inspire me. Art. Culture. Community. Writing. Entertainment. Food. Fitness. Yoga. Travel. I'm living life and loving it...that's being breezie...

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"Fresh Water" in "FORTH"

Read my flash fiction piece "Fresh Water" in FORTH!

My latest short fiction piece “Fresh Water” was published in FORTH Magazine. This flash fiction was inspired by a writing exercise I did in a writing class with Richard Rayner (read my interview with him in Exposition Review) about the last time two people see each other. Set on Mars, this is a story of love found, lived, and scattered across the universe. Enjoy: “Fresh Water” in FORTH Magazine

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Zadok Ben-David in #ExpoRecommends: "Surface" Inspiration

See it before it closes on 5/27: Zadok Ben-David at Shoshana Wayne Gallery and in #ExpoRecommends: "Surface" Inspiration

Inspired by our latest issue, “Surface” a few of the other Expo editors and I created a list of multi-genre recommendations. In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and podcast recommendations from the other editors, yours truly found a must-see art exhibition in Los Angeles: At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Zadok Ben-David’s People I Saw but Never Met (on view through May 27) blankets the surface of the…

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Here it is! Exposition Review‘s latest issue Vol. II: “Surface” is now available online! “Surface” is all about perspective. Full of unique voices and blending genres, this issue is a close examination of the superficial and the sublime, of the hidden depths and delicate tensions inherent to the human experience. Together, the works presented in “Surface” take us through the looking glass, on a…

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Regina Scully Recap for New Orleans Museum of Art Opening

Regina Scully Recap for New Orleans Museum of Art Opening

In honor of the opening of Regina Scully: Japanese Painting: Inner Journeys at New Orleans Museum of Art, take a read through my Nola.com writeup of the showing of Scully’s 2012 Elemental series at Heriard-Cimino Gallery: (more…)

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ICYMI: My fiction piece "Ready to Where?" was published in @DrunkMonkeys! I'm excited to share my short fiction piece Ready to Where?, which was published in the January 2017 issue of Drunk Monkeys.

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Movie Review: La La Land

Take a read of my movie review of #LaLaLand:

– I’ve always loved the phrase “la la land.” It reminds me of my dad, who often used the moniker as he’d drive my family from the San Francisco Bay down the 5 and onto the 405. As we entered the land of palm trees, I’d envision the other passengers stuck in traffic next to me singing “la la la” as they waited not-so-patiently for the parking-lot freeway to pick back up again. For me this pet name…

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Ready Player One Book Review

Ready Player One Book Review

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ready Player One is as addicting as the virtual video game that it portrays. From chapter one, I was hooked. Not only do Cline’s descriptions of the real-world and virtually simulated planets jump to life as is I were plugged into my own OASIS console, his narrator Wade Watts aka Parzival, your classic poor, downtrodden hero with the brains…

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"She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies...Oh my, oh my." in "The Human Touch Journal"

Read my recently published fiction piece from "The Human Touch" journal on my blog!

I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Colorado for the first time, and fell absolutely in love with its snow-capped peaks, rustling Aspen, and the residents’ passion for the outdoors. But one of the most exciting parts of the trip was a pit stop at University of Colorado’s Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. No, this isn’t the story about a hiking trek gone terribly awry, this is a story of…

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Recommended Readings from Yours Truly

Recommended Readings from Yours Truly

Recommended readings from yours truly. Last week in the Expo Blog, I wrote the inaugural post to our latest series: Expo Recommends. In it, the editors of Exposition Review, myself included, tell you about some of our favorite readings. As a reader and a writer, these pieces inspired and moved me, and I hope they will do the same for you. Move these recommended readings to the top of your reading…

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Explore Downtown Los Angeles and the Arts District with Exposition Review As the Editor-in-Chief of the multi-genre literary journal, Exposition Review, I was lucky enough to transform my exploration of Downtown Los Angeles and the Arts District into a blog about our fair city.

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Cities have characters, pathologies that can make or destroy or infect you, states of mind that run through daily life as surely as a fault line. Chandler’s “mysterious something” was a mood of disenchantment, an intense spiritual malaise that identified itself with Los Angeles at a particular time, what we call noir. On the one hand noir is a narrow film genre, born in Hollywood in the late 1930s when European visual style, the twisted perspectives and stark chiaroscuros of German Expressionism, met an American literary idiom. This fruitful comingling gave birth to movies like Double Indemnity, directed by Vienna-born Billy Wilder and scripted by Raymond Chandler from a James M. Cain novella. The themes — murderous sex and the cool, intricate amorality of money — rose directly from the psychic mulch of Southern California. But L.A. is a city of big dreams and cruelly inevitable disappointments where noir is more than just a slice of cinema history; it’s a counter-tradition, the dark lens through which the booster myths came to be viewed, a disillusion that shadows even the best of times, an alienation that assails the sense like the harsh glitter of mica in the sidewalk on a pitiless Santa Ana day. Noir — in this sense a perspective on history and often a substitute for it — was born when the Roaring Twenties blew themselves out and hard times rushed in; it crystallized real-life events and the writhing collapse of the national economy before finding its interpreters in writers like Raymond Chandler.

Richard Rayner, A Bright and Guilty Place (via oldfilmsflicker)

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Mantra in Motion

Put your #mantraoftheday in motion with this Surya Namaskar A sequence:

You’ve heard your yoga teacher say it hundreds of times: “link your movement with your breath.” This key mantra in the yoga practice is crucial to letting the prana, the breath, the life force soften into our bodies and minds. This mantra in motion combines the breath and movement of Syura Namascara A with a mantra to keep your yoga practice flowing. First off, how do you do Syura A? Inhale, from…

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Catch Hammer Museum's Latest Round of Exhibitions Before They Close

In need of something art-y to do this weekend? Catch @Hammer_Museum's latest round of exhibitions before they close. Mark Bradford, Mary Reid Kelley, and Joseph Holtzman.

Mark Bradford, “Lights and Tunnels,” 2015. Mixed media on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. The summer is slipping away, and with it Hammer Museum‘s latest round of exhibitions: Mark Bradford’s “Scorched Earth,” and Hammer Projects by Mary Reid Kelley and Joseph Holtzman which close on September 20 (Bradford and Holtzman) and September 27 (Reid Kelley). The exhibitions bring…

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Every dance in movie history in ‘Shut Up and Dance’ compilation If this doesn't make you want to get up and dance, I don't know what will...

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Saving the Spirit While "Saving Gaza's only grand piano"

My latest musings on "Saving Gaza's only grand piano"

Musings on Tim Whewell’s “Saving Gaza’s only grand piano”

Listen to “Saving Gaza’s Grand Piano” on BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents: “When my eyes got used to the gloom of the Nawras Theatre in northern Gaza, I gasped at the scale of the destruction. A tangle of cables, twisted metal and broken lamps hung down like spilled entrails from the shattered ceiling. The luxurious scarlet seats were…

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Total Yoga DVD Brings Flashback of James Turrell's "Perceptual Cell"

Total Yoga DVD Brings Flashback of James Turrell’s “Perceptual Cell”

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Finding myself with an afternoon hour to spare between work and class, I decided to crack open my favorite yoga DVD, by my gurus, Tracy Rich and Ganga White of White Lotus. Though I hadn’t followed the Total Yoga: The Flow Series “Fire” practice in quite some time, the DVD is one I’ve gravitated toward since I started doing…

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Inspired by @PaulTeodoYoga of @PowerYogaEast, here's a Yoga Mantra of the Day: Surrender, Growth, Contribution. #MantraoftheDay #yoga A yoga bonus, Paul Teodo adds his guitar stylings to savasana. During a beautiful vinyasa practice at…