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StrangeTango.com is a multilayered art installation in cyberspace…the documentation of a life in three iterations: as a film treatment, a book, a blog.

“What remains as documentation of a life?” Strange Tango haunts the boundaries of digital streams and visceral storytelling, where pixels and dreams flow together.

Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world.

Life is a strange tango...

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“She writes about emotion as a connoisseur of states of mind.” ~ Raphael Seligmann

12 MUSES platforms: ►Life as Art ‒ StrangeTango.com repository ►SHOWCASE ‒ interviews inspired by passion, innovation, and leadership ►Edgy and Ethereal ‒ Strange Tango’s iconic style ►CONNECTORS ‒ guest columnists, individuals, and concepts that link our world ►Millennials ‒ written for and by the digital generation ►Multicultural ‒ written for and by the multicultural community ►Neo-Zen ‒ elegant, eclectic, minimalist, surprising ►Art ‒ creativity and self expression ►Nest ‒ sanctuary ►Food ‒ a foodie’s discoveries, recipes and dining reviews ►Traveler ‒ insights from a traveler and citizen of the world ►Green ‒ gardening and sustainability
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Illumination. Inspiration. Innovation. Magic...

VISITOR COMMENT: ►"Hey Audrey - I finally got around to checking out your StrangeTango.com website, and I was absolutely astounded at how powerful it was! Congratulations, and I can't wait to read more on your blog! Definitely deserving of a Webby! Really impressive..." Boston, MA

THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America

My personal copy of this important new book by Charles Ogletree.

Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School has written the much anticipated and definitive book on the high-profile case involving the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge on July 16, 2009. The incident is of [...]

Leadership of a Diverse Workforce

In commemoration of President Barack Obama’s Proclamation of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am honored to reproduce, with permission, a moving speech on diversity by a proud Filipino American, physician, and officer. Colonel Rodrigo Mariano, M.D., is Board Certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine Physicians and is [...]

The Issue of Asian American Representation

Michael Pang, Cornell '11

As a former Cornell University Trustee—and part of an alumni network of 7,000 volunteers—I have connected possibly hundreds of Cornellians on my personal Facebook page. Guest columnist Michael Pang, Cornell ’11, came to my attention when we friended each other on Facebook through a post about the Cornell Asian Alumni Association [...]

Steven Spriggs, Role Model Millennial

Steven Spriggs, Texas A&M '13

I first met Steven Spriggs a year ago when he was a senior at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, applying for admission to Cornell University. As an alumna involved with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network (CAAAN), I am privileged to meet and to recruit many promising young men [...]

SPEAK, MEMORY

Me, at the time I began writing Strange Tango.

The destinies of a pantheon of gifted Cornell graduates unfold through the internet.

After my niece had graduated from pre-kindergarten several years back, she started summer classes at vacation bible school where she saw Luke, a former classmate who had left the class to be home-schooled in [...]

The Millennials' Sense of Service

Jerome Tse is a student in the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Originally from Boston, Jerome plans to obtain a degree in hospitality. He is also a Cornell ambassador and enjoys working at the front office of the university-run Statler Hotel. I have known Jerome’s father professionally for several years and recall the photographs of Jerome and [...]

Passion for Teaching

Jack Hunsucker was my debate coach at Lawton High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. He fielded award-winning debaters, speakers, and orators on the high school and National Forensic League circuit and later became a drama coach. Thanks to my debate instructors, I became the first place women’s extemporaneous speaker in our NFL tri-state region. In retirement, Jack has taken on the role of author [...]

Millennial Spirit

Bianco’s Italian Restaurant is a landmark in Lawton, Oklahoma. The restaurant still makes the same spaghetti sauce that Tony Bennett enjoyed when he performed at the local auditorium decades ago.

Each Friday afternoon before heading off for a game, the 63 members of nearby Lawton High School’s football team gather together to share fellowship and a [...]

Electing to Vote - Cornell Daily Sun Digital Archive

While power surfing the internet, I found one of my first published essays in the Cornell Daily Sun Digital Archive. My writings have been digitized! It was good to revisit my roots in activism and community building—and to remind myself that, from an early age, my destiny was to be published.

No Deposit…No Return

My friend Doug was [...]

Serge

Serge was easily over six feet tall, his father was a Russian colonel, his mother Korean.

We were in high school together. Serge went off to study government at Yale, as did I at Cornell, and he had been accepted to law school. Apparently, he had died in an automobile accident; I heard he swerved to avoid [...]

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