For those looking for suggestions on your next literary escape, I’ve had another fairly good month. I kicked things off with a classic myth transported into the 1960s, saturated with haunting prose and deliberate conflation of which god(dess) and hero(ine) was who, and when, and how. John Updike’s “The Centaur” turned my brain into aContinueContinue reading “Words, Words, Words: October Reads”
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Smug Kitty
How my elder furball responded when I told him it’s my 2 year bloggiversary. Shot on Pixel 6 Pro, black and white filter.
Times Like These
There are times in life when it feels like it’s all you can do to take it one day at a time. When the world puts you in reaction mode, one mini-crisis to the next, and your waking hours consist entirely of parrying the attacks. And not forgetting to breathe. Out and in, out andContinueContinue reading “Times Like These”
Love Among the Blogs: Lost on Stage
https://lostonstage.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/script-selection-the-squishy-the-stuffy-and-the-scary/?_thumbnail_id=379&fbclid=IwAR2WCm-4ALvP1r8uadNPDosAHljt6Br9tzv0KvqP19Z2AhGzNARrPFNwXWQ Many thanks to the folks at Rosedale Community Players for giving my post some love this week! It’s kinda like scrolling through Facebook and discovering that someone is quoting you, or finding out that your photos show up on Google location searches and have been viewed a hundred thousand times. Anyway, it’s cool. ThanksContinueContinue reading “Love Among the Blogs: Lost on Stage”
NoNaNoWriMo
Dingle, Ireland (2013) November is often a time for avoiding social obligations. For hibernating from the outside world and putting a permanent glutes-shaped dent into the comfy couch. For late coffee runs and an excess of hair falling into the drain. Because November is National Novel Writing Month. Or to those “in the industry”, simplyContinueContinue reading “NoNaNoWriMo”
What Neil Said
Theatre, writing, and travel are my sports. And like any athlete, amateur hobbyist or consummate professional, it’s important to train during the off-season. Which has pretty much been all year, as far as theatre and travel go. Writing, on the other hand? Writing is there for me, always. It’s the hobby that never sleeps. EvenContinueContinue reading “What Neil Said”
The Writing Desk
Standing at the fork of yet another Road diverged and yellow wood Knowing now That I’m fading with age (As all things do) That it isn’t so much what is chosenAs much as adherence to the choiceAnd coherence of the storyThat “Where do you want to go today?”Is the only answerable questionAnd that it isn’tContinueContinue reading “The Writing Desk”
Rashomon Series: The Notebook – NOLA
It’s that time again – time for “something a little different”! Inspired by one of my favorite stories, Rashomon, I solicit the thoughts and opinions of others who have tread the same path as me, but (inevitably) they bring a different perspective. End result: you get twice the story. (I’ve successfully wrangled a “second voice”ContinueContinue reading “Rashomon Series: The Notebook – NOLA”
Muttering Retreats 