In reflecting on this strange, sad year and what the holiday of Samhain invites us to do, mediate on, connect with, I had the feeling a few weeks ago that I should spend this week (or so) catching up with The Birthday Project in a way that might allow me to play in and with its spiritual side. The Birthday Project is the life long art project I've assigned myself (or been given, or both) to honor my art ancestors and reflect on age. Each year on the eve of my birthday I spend

Confession: I've put down and had a very hard time getting back to The Best Little Girl in the World. The novel was written by Karen Carpenter's psychiatrist who is still widely considered a expert in the field of disordered eating. While Steven Levenkron's work is notable in that he is "pioneer" in Western psychology to tackle disordered eating as their own beasts, pioneers well - they're often problematic. After my experiences in various therapeutic spaces around disordered