Poetry: A Poem The first thing The big guns In poetry You know -- The ones In the expensive literary periodicals, The first thing the…

I wish they sold travel insurance for holiday get togethers. Not the travel part, they already have that, but the actual get-together part. Some guarantee…

She walked into her desert study across the patio to take up the daily task of writing. Her book spoke to the diametric magic of…

For actors, all actors I dare say, it is a terrific and very fun thing to feel and hear an audience’s positive response . To…

I was driving in my '69 VW up the Hudson toward the Battenkill River. The music was Crosby, Stills and Nash. "49 Reasons all in…

Her friends begged her not to fly the day before Thanksgiving. The delays, the cancellations, the stress of it. But she wanted to be there…

I’m at the theater with some friends, a matinee. The show hasn’t started yet and we are remarking on how lovely the weather has been.…

My life was the size of my life Emma, the young woman who is the lead in my screenplay COWGIRLS, has what she thinks is…

This morning, listening to the brilliant Eddie Higgins and his infinite, intimate relationship with his piano, I can only think and write that Life...is a…

In the ache for communion that seems endemic to this milieu, I write out of sheer pleasure. Often the pleasure is not always at the…

I was in Schenectady , New York, where I grew up. I was trying to re-integrate into the fabric of the USA. I had spent…

And that is how a career in show business is built. With blinders on. Or else. Or else someone else will get that job! Especially…