I am an artist, recently retired from the Smithsonian American Art Museum where I worked as a new media producer. I'm also the face of the Chamomile Tea Party and have written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, and Smithsonian Magazine. You can read about life around me at Life Outtacontext and see In Our Path, a photo documentary I did on the building of "the last freeway" in Los Angeles, the Century Freeway or I-105.