POET | PLAYWRIGHT | TEACHING ARTIST
#ThatsLife
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Of Lobsters and Unintential Lies
I find myself nearly every week telling at least one hurting teenager that it does get better. That these are definitely not “the best years of your life” for everyone. I hated high school. Even college was a struggle. But I love my life now. Every year, things got better. Except that, well, maybe they…
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The Point of Excellence?
There’s no reason to think that they were among the more interesting of the people living then, the most intelligent, the most clever. But they built the bridge: the object, conduit, magic portal that made this connection. Through some fluke of archaeology, this anonymous bit of humanity endured.
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The Magic Pen
I once went to London to attend a “master class” by a famous writer. It was actually a lecture in a room with 200 or so folding chairs. When the writer was finished talking about her dog and her cottage in the woods, she opened the floor for questions. Someone asked, “What kind of pen…
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Choosing the Compassionate Story
I have no idea what this woman’s story really was. But I chose to assume that she was under stress. Maybe she’d just come from the doctor with very bad news. Maybe the elderly companion was her Alzheimer’s-stricken father, who had just beaten her mother, who was now in the hospital. (I have always had…
