hanging out with my friend & fellow prison memoirist Shaka Senghor at the LA Times Book Festival recently

This coming Tuesday, 5/5/26, the topic for Aim4theHeArt Heart Sessions urban poetry workshop will be Ignite . hope u can joinus !

doing an artist exchange with my Lebanese Australian foster kid singersongwriter friend Yagki after her kickass headlining set at the Viper Room Thursday...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1cCwtMdUM

My Lebanese Australian foster kid singersongwriter friend YAGKI tearing it up headlining the Viper Room last night!...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8qj5yniUw

My reality poem for this week's aim4theheart heart sessions urban poetry workshop- From virtual reality to human reality-Next week's topic is Ignite.. hope u can join us! REALITY From To Vulnerability Vanisher & Insecurity Invisibilizer Humble Helper Rawness Reducer & Trust Twister Uplifter of the Unlovable Uniqueness

hanging out with my new friend, the film composer Gabriele Deliperi, after he bought a copy of Killing Justice at the most recent Night Temple event in Hollywood on April 18th

my Dreams poem, From Nightmare to DreamLife, for last night's Aim4TheHeArt Heart Sessions poetry/hiphop workshop, where we had a full house of powerful performances on the topic of Dreams, & we decided to have next week's topic be Reality. D R E A M S From To Nightmare of Negativity Dance of Delight Isolated & Insecure Redemptively Ruined Gui

hanging out with Gregory Jbara, director of the wonderful new film "Original Sound" which features a father/son relationship not unlike the mother/son relationship at the heart of Killing Justice, & which opens this Friday, 4/24

hanging out with my fellow author Johnene, after we did an artist exchange at the end of this past weekend's wonderfully inspiring LA Times Festival of Books

poster for the new Michael movie, which I got to see an advance screening of just now at UCLA's James Bridges Theater, & LOVED it, as what especially resonated for me was his decades long journey to break free from his domineering father, which mirrored my own decades long journey to break free from my domineering adoptive mom, which is at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, now being adapted for the screen as Orphan Rising)/...it opens NEXT FRIDAY, 3/24, SO GO SEE

hanging out with actor Robert Aramayo, who stars in the wildly entertaining, deeply moving new film I Swear, which does for those with Tourettes what I wanna keep doing in both my life (volunteering with) & art (poetry, memoir Killing Justice & upcoming film Orphan Rising) for Foster Kids & Adoptees: helps them feel SEEN!...it opens NEXT FRIDAY, 4/24, so GO SEE IT!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwC2GKi3iA

A V O I D A N C E From To Danger Denier Paralysis Preventer Abandonment Avoider Openness Orchestrator Neediness Number Silence Strangler Grief Glider Isolation Interrupter Emptiness Escaper Trauma Taster Rage Represser Interdependence In

hanging out with Yihui Hu, writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving short film He, which parallels fosterchild and immigrant trauma, as does my debut memoir Killing Justice, after it screened as part of the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles film festival this past weekend

hanging out with my friend & fellow adoptee Kevin & his friend Ethan, drummer & lead singer of the Queens of the Stone Age cover band Little Sister, after their kickass performance at the Viper Room last night

Happy 9th anniversary up in heaven, MomAdele! Missing you madly...but I'm finally starting to write our memoir, Finding Heart, about your 26 year search to find me, and the 27 years we had together once you did!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the 2nd season finale of High Potential, as really captures the willful blindness that can so easily become a fatal flaw in anyone, since, as Anais Nin reminds us "We see the world as we are, not as it is", which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this darkly comic psychological thriller, which opens THIS FRIDAY! (SO GO SEE IT)...as with Ian McKellen in superbly crotchety form and Michaela Coel exuding chilly cunning, it’s further proof that Soderbergh remains one of American cinema’s most inimitable, and adventurous, auteurs...I especially love how the film explores the healing power of art, as does Killing Justice.

hanging out with Sammy Jaye , podcast host & now director of the film-in-progress ‘ENDO’, which is a feature-length documentary that aims to ignite a cultural conversation around endometriosis– a silent, painful and ravaging disease that affects more than 265 million women globally. Featuring Brittany Brown , Julianne Hough and Amy Schumer, it will be released on June 1st, 2026, the 100th anniversary of my cousin Marilyn Monroe's birthday, as she was probably the most famous

W A V E S From To Despondent Defender Appreciative Ambassador & Merciful Mender Exiled Esquire Noble Navigator & Inspiring Instigator Suicidally Silent Orchestrat

hanging out with my fellow adoptee/artiste Kevin at Fat Sal's, after he got a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice there just now