Jul 30, 2020
Shrek is the story of an unlikely hero. Or rather, unlikely heroes. Because everyone in the story who is supposed to lose, wins. Shrek’s story was written long before he was born. Ogres are monsters. They’re dangerous. It’s in their nature. Their very DNA. They’re to...
May 1, 2016
Lanford Wilson’s “Redwood Curtain” provided me with one of those moments that made me think about something differently than I’d thought about it before. I love those moments. Even when they make my stomach churn. A young piano prodigy is concerned about the...
Sep 24, 2015
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears as if a significant portion of the populace is seriously considering pounding the final nail into our dying republic and replacing it with what they clearly believe our founding fathers always intended…a reality TV...
Apr 23, 2015
I go quiet sometimes. Not a bad thing. Opportunity to reflect. To process. To figure out what I think, how I feel, in reaction to. In relation to. My favorite line in my favorite film, from one of my favorite plays, A Raisin in the Sun…“Never be afraid to sit...
May 15, 2014
Rain falling, power going on and off and on and off and on and off and on then off. And this time it stays off. So I leave my house and drive. I love driving. I was a colicky baby. How many times was I told I didn’t stop screaming for months after my...
Feb 20, 2014
I have been deeply saddened by the daily reports of deaths in the news. Some of whom have passed I knew personally and some I’ve simply, but profoundly, been inspired by. I won’t speak about the folks I knew personally because...
Dec 12, 2013
You know what? No. It doesn’t simply have to be…that’s life. Although it is. It always is. But I don’t have to just sit back and say…well…that’s the way it is…whatever will be will be…even though it’s...
Sep 13, 2013
The movie was “Lili”, directed by Charles Walters, starring Leslie Caron. She is a waif who joins the carnival to pursue handsome, smooth-talking, womanizing carnival magician, Jean-Pierre Aumont, who, unfortunately for her, is married to glamorous, and...
Aug 28, 2013
My last entry was at the beginning of this year. New starts. Goodbye to the old…heralding in… Today seems like as good a day as any to write something fresh. Check back in. 50 years ago today something momentous happened in this country. In this...
Jan 1, 2013
2012 is finished. It was an extremely tumultuous year the world over but as I recently told a friend of mine…I’ve only ever known the world to be in chaos…so what’s new? I was born in 1961…and I could easily create a list of the most...
