This is the time we have. Just now, just this moment. The past is gone and the future hasn't happened yet. We only have now.…

Going through old piles of writing...this, from 1988...yes...1988....it feels like i have written forever and forever and forever , and my stacks of old writing…

I’ve been living in the Santa Cruz Mountains for fifteen years now, in a proper mountain town nestled between Redwood City and Palo Alto to…

I try to be very mindful with my speech. I know first hand how harmful words can be, even if they're said with the best…

The huge space was packed with film festival goers. I was one of the invited filmmakers, had traveled by myself to Galway, Ireland from San…

If you are an artist of any sort, loss is part of the Life....and not just losing,but rather making losing as much an art as…

Kenji, the self-effacing character in our close-to-finished film, came onto the scene after Kenji, the filmmaker, had been shooting for 8 years. It's not that…

So, today, I read that the inestimable, irreplaceable, inspirational and un-imitatable Dame Maggie Smith is gone from this earthly realm, off for an eternal tea…

Of course, the natural place to go with the idea of being heated with joy is to sex, and all the greatest adventures, real or…

When they (The Army Corps of Engineers) created Sacandaga Reservoir in about 1937, the water covered many small towns in the lower Adirondack area. Some…

Often, an hour out from showtime, before going to my dressing room flights of stairs above, I’d give myself the solitary luxury of walking out…

Every minute, every second, every infinitesimal instant sounds notes for me on an inspiring musical scale. At least - the very least- that’s how I…