Author: J.J.Brown Author

  • NYC Farmers Market: A Feast for the Senses

    NYC Farmers Market: A Feast for the Senses

    On the last day of summer, the local NYC farmers market was a feast for my senses. I was out for a walk and didn’t bring my wallet, so I could look, smell, touch, but not buy the beautiful produce of bountiful summer harvests. I did bring my phone and took photos. The trip brought…

  • New Documentary Theater: How We Love

    New Documentary Theater: How We Love

    Guest blog by Lillian Isabella, writer, actor. Over the course of a year I traveled all over New York City interviewing 28 different women about female sexuality. I asked them questions like… How would you describe an orgasm? What makes a great lover? How did your childhood shape your sexuality? I recorded the interviews and…

  • For the Love of Pears

    I’ve been loving pears these days, as I tend to do through the last days of summer and first days of fall. I made up a new virgin cocktail recipe I call “The Sweet Tart” yesterday and a new confection recipe, “Light Chocolate Mousse” today. Both are plant-based recipes and vegan, with the sweetness of…

  • Comorbidity: Expressions of Love

    When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…

  • Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan, is my new short story now available for downloads in the Kindle store. The story takes place on the last day of summer in 2018. But it was born 14 years ago on a trip to Old San Juan from a strange dream, and then developed during the…