Nothing reminds us how important the mundane or the ordinary really is until we are challenged to “sit with it” for longer than a minute....

How fun it was this week to join MOCA+, as a guest on their Monday evening Collective Conscience Salon Series. Their focus:  ‘connecting...

As the first iconic frames of “Star Wars” scrolled up the screen, I was hooked. As a kid in a small-town darkened movie theater, my life...

Most of us can handle bad news, tough roads, setbacks, and life-altering events, but the battle we face today is different for everyone...

I miss driving around town with my son. I’m not sure he would agree, but I feel my parenting goes up a notch when we’re side by side in...

The best chefs in the world search for the finest ingredients, using their collective senses to gather the best the season has to offer. ...

As a 21 year old college student, I am always on the move. Constantly looking to the next class, the next grade, the next job, the next...

I have one hand – not only one hand or just one hand – the one hand that I was dealt when I arrived on this earthly scene just a few to...

Ping! The email from Chancellor Yang hits my inbox. It wasn’t unexpected, in fact, quite the opposite. I’d been waiting for days to hear...

When we are told to stay home, “socially distance” and remove ourselves from the very activity that connects us (by design), we go...

Long before that fateful morning when I looked in the mirror and stared in shock at the transformation of my neck from gazelle to gullet,...

We live in an era of hyper connectedness, yet never have our connections posed a significant threat to our own health and the health of...

By Shelley Tatum Kieran Modernism Week 2020 will be making a splash in Palm Springs next month and MOCA+ is thrilled to announce our...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams Every year we have a chance to look back on our lives and decide what we learned, what we want to do more and...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams As more and more of us gravitate toward meaningful experiences over “things” for the holidays, we are ever...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams Working with Monogram over the years has meant evolving the brand for the most design minded consumers and...

By Shelley Tatum Kieran “Modern decoration, if it is sincere, doesn’t call for the sweeping away of familiar things or condemn to death...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams Thanksgiving gives us a multitude of opportunities for gratitude, kindness and peace. In keeping with that...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams Almost 20 years ago, in a book titled Cultural Creatives, sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth...

By Michela O'Connor Abrams When we change our environment for any reason, we leave behind aspects of our lives but we never leave...