Theatre: Training for Life

Several people have expressed interest in hearing more about my life in theatre, so here is a beginning. Being involved with theatre for more than 30 years has affected my life in too many ways to be the subject of one blog post. In many ways, theatre training and production has actually been my training [...]

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Writers Aren’t Competing With Each Other

Competition between writers seems unnecessary because our role is not to become the one voice drowning out the others; our role is to be our own unique voice. Alegra Clarke, Love the Competition: The world needs writers This has been on my mind since Jen at Laughing at Chaos posted about her upcoming book from [...]

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Leaving the Realm of the Average

I am in-between houses. We have started moving things into the new place, but we are still living in the old place. I am in-between in a deeper sense as well. In the language of social anthropology, I am in a liminal phase, a transitional period between outward personas, an inner transformation reflected in the [...]

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Hang On and Pretend It’s a Plan

Last year, I didn’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I chose to take incremental steps to change my practices. I set out to play more, write more, and move more. In retrospect, I made progress in all three areas. This year, I know better than to make resolutions, or even to make much in the way [...]

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