Growing Up Into Dreams
Last night, I made a proclamation. “Tomorrow, I grow up.” It’s a Facebook Status kind of thing to say. Is it true? Will I grow up today? On the one hand, each day is a growing up into...
View ArticlePassion and Virtue
My friend and I were talking this morning, and she mentioned a quote from Jane Austen that said something about a marriage not lasting because of passion outstripping virtue. I looked online and...
View ArticleDoing Right By The Work: Choosing This Day
The task in my writing today is nothing unusual; it is the mundane work of choosing the timing and pace by which the world I am creating in my play unfolds. When do the revelations come? What is the...
View ArticleArtistic Desire, Artistic Torment
So my friend wrote a comment on my post entitled “An Artist’s Prayer” that read something like this: “How do you know the difference between artistic desire and artistic torment? It seems one and the...
View ArticleMarriage and Aesthetic Unity
When I typed the title of this post, I had to reconsider. Really? Marriage and aesthetic unity? What I mean by aesthetic unity as in what emerges from a strong work of art or a successful theatre...
View ArticleWhen The Body Speaks, Listening Might Be A Good Idea
Physically speaking, the past year has been strange. In April of 2014, I came back from my week of teaching in Hawaii and promptly got sick, something in my stomach that wrecked my system for a good...
View ArticleSleep
Someone asked me yesterday just how big this “puzzle” I keep referring to is. First step, coffee, then working out. Frankly, it’s a big puzzle, a thousand pieces maybe, and maybe I don’t know...
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