Leigh W. JeromeOct 13, 202114 minSick & Tired – Long COVID: We Are Here! Pandemic fatigue is all around us. This plague has left us depleted and gasping for normality. At the start of COVID, we were vigilant...
Leigh W. JeromeJun 15, 202115 minThe Pandemic is Over (but, really...is it?)Vaccines are up, infections are down and masks are coming off. Huzzah! Of course, we want everything to be okay. The pandemic has been...
Leigh W. JeromeDec 30, 20204 min2020 – Before and AfterThe end of the year is conventionally a time of reflection, taking stock and recalibration for a fresh start; but, then again, New Year’s...
Leigh W. JeromeDec 1, 20205 minLong COVID-We Are HereOn March 5, 2020 I woke up to a tickle in my throat. This scratchy feeling turned into a sore throat with a cough, body aches, chills,...
Jane BreckwoldtNov 3, 20208 minThe Art of Perspective By: Jane Breckwoldt Perspective, simply defined means how we see. But “how we see” carries different meanings whether the perspective is...
Leigh W. JeromeSep 9, 20208 minKeeping True in the Disinformation Age: (Part 3) By William E. Newnam REASONS FOR OPTIMISM We are being told that the political conventions opened the election season. Many of us feel like we suffered...
Leigh W. JeromeSep 1, 20207 minKeeping True in the Disinformation Age: The Art of Misinformation(Part 2) By Jane Breckwoldt When broaching the subject of misinformation in the world of art, the most prevalent and obvious is the use...
Leigh W. JeromeAug 25, 20207 minKeeping True in the Disinformation Age (Part 1) By William E. Newnam Given the massive proliferation of information access and opportunity, we are confronted with a world...
Leigh W. JeromeJul 21, 20204 minCivilization vs. Corona-ZombiesIt’s really hot outside. The air is febrile with COVID, global warming, intolerance and revolution. At least the fireworks have finally...
Leigh W. JeromeJun 23, 20204 minThe Presence of ChaosIs there a word to recount the visceral confusion of being alive in this time? Fickle emotions splinters like brittle cracked glass....
Leigh W. JeromeJun 4, 20203 minThis Is Our Heart Still BeatingWe raise our fists in protest. We raise our hands in peace. We feel change burning in our hearts and in the streets and in the very...
Leigh W. JeromeMay 11, 20205 minThe Reckoning The virus doesn’t care about your job. The virus doesn’t care about your parents or your children or your friends. The virus doesn’t care...
Leigh W. JeromeMay 4, 20204 minThe COVID Edge: Requiem or Renaissance The outlook seems bleak. An allusion to a “Dark Ages”, that is a period of intellectual deficiency, social upheaval and barbarity, feels...
Leigh W. JeromeApr 20, 20204 minWhat If There's A Wolf at Our Door? It’s a scary world out there. Anything could happen… We’ve always known this. So we’ve faced our dread; looked despair in the face;...
Leigh W. JeromeApr 13, 20205 minThe Discovery of Opportunity within the Crisis of COVIDEvery crisis (from the Greek "to separate, to sift") brings opportunity - a time to appraise and keep only that which is worth keeping....
Leigh W. JeromeApr 6, 20204 minCan We Press Reset? The reality of our global troubles had become unnerving before COVID-19. Every day we’d wake up to news of growing inequalities, global...
Leigh W. JeromeMar 30, 20203 minChain Reactions and Complex Problems In the early blush of the Information Age, we possessed naïve optimism that global connectivity and technological progress would be able...
Leigh W. JeromeMar 9, 20203 minCommunity in the Age of Pandemics We knew it was just a matter of time. As we have expanded into an interconnected global community, the potential for novel microbial...
Leigh W. JeromeMar 2, 20203 minBringing Storytelling To Life To Build a Better WorldThe world we experience is not exactly the real world. Human experience is a mental construction, mediated though our physical senses....
Leigh W. JeromeFeb 24, 20203 minFighting Fake News with Art + ScienceIn the United States, adults spend more than 11 hours a day consuming media in some form. On the Internet alone there are over 1.8...