Author: Amory Violet

Amory Violet Starr, PhD, MCP, is from San Francisco, California. She is a writer and artistic director. She was credentialed by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (M.I.T.), the Community Development Program of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T., and in political economy and social movements at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She has studied yoga, pilates, and permaculture and is an auto-didact chef. She was an activist in the alterglobalization movement from 1999-2005 and in the local food movements since 1995. You can find her writing on these topics at AmoryStarr.com and ArtisanModern.com. Since 2009 she has been a performer and professor of Argentine Tango with her company TangoForge. Her pedagogy and performances are available at TangoForge.com She is the author of 8 books and she coaches nonfiction, the creative process, and courageous living.

Crêpes and Kisses

Excerpt from chapter 1 “In or Out” from my forthcoming book, Kitchen Complex.   We stood side-by-side at the stove, each with one of the crêpe pans and my whimsical first attempt at dough. Since we had only buckwheat flour, I had avoided traipsing into his territory of etherial –and laborious– white crêpes. This is […]

The Grief Portal

How could I not have understand this possibility? How did I simultaneously fear and not consider it? We said “the cats must be free”. That’s easy to say until you have to deal with the consequences.

The Garden Portal

I wrote to Aimee, “it’s a very long time since I’ve taken so many notes on anything.”