Category: Personal

  • do what you love

    do what you love

    “Working Man” by Rush, the 1974 blue-collar anthem features a lead character lamenting his laborious lifestyle.

  • Solo Blanco

    First rehearsals have begun for MESTIZA, OR MIXED by Melissa Leilani Larson at Plan B Theatre. Being in the room again is a great feeling. I love first rehearsals – the newness, the possibilities …

  • Purpureal Hedging

    Purpureal Hedging

    It’s always nice to be back in the Home of Arbor Day, spending quality time with a quality family.

  • PhD in Custodial Engineering

    PhD in Custodial Engineering

    Another academic calendar concludes and commencements … um … commence?

  • outside in

    Self-advocating has always been difficult for me because there remains enormous uncertainty when it comes to knowing just what exactly it is that I want.

  • the prophet profits and the sage burns

    the prophet profits and the sage burns

    In a play I never finished writing the main character returns to their family home while everyone is away at Easter church service. They had been estranged for several years and so there is much exclamation and excitement when the family gets home from worship to find their long-lost kin relaxing in an easy chair…

  • Hope Springs Eternal

    It was wonderful to see the Cubs play at Wrigley Field on Opening Day. I love having baseball season back in full swing (pun intended) and Iā€™m really looking forward to this team having a great first half of the season and then collapsing after the all-star break like a good Cubs team should. After…

  • Alarm Goes off at Seven

    My excitement grows knowing that in a few short days we’ll be back in the old barn making magic once again. Inside those walls and under that roof where previously every ounce of my creative energy was poured out and used up. To me, it is a temple, a sacred place of ritual and magic…

  • Zappa Stache

    Happy Equinox everyone

  • busted

    busted

    I caught them. They are getting to like each other even though Mitch is resisting. Today I caught them nearly cuddling together under these blankets. It’s close enough for now. At face value, this is just a cute picture of my dogs. But really, this is an abstract photograph of the weather outside. The meteorologists…