My friend called yesterday. She’s far away --- across the country, at her summer home in Cape Cod. She called because she’d fallen on the few steps out back and, for the second time having fallen, didn’t have her phone.…

In college I wrote a story called “A Small World.” It was about a drugstore waitress and the man she waited on at the soda counter who asked her out. Small town people. She’d “held out”against his sexual advances, and…

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”……Andy Warhol My favorite pop artist.. It seems…

“All is Compromise, sayeth the preacher.” No—that’s not right. It’s “All is Vanity, sayeth the preacher.” Well, both are true, but only to some extent. It’s what Sarah was thinking as she looked at Bunko stretched out, still asleep. She…

He made me cry every performance!

He was a man who shone in the perfect light of where he was absolutely meant to be. And in the 2nd Act of BIG RIVER, as I stood off stage left to watch and hear him sing "Free At…

There’s a scene somewhere in Shakespeare, a dialogue. One character is saying something like, You know my faults. If such a one as I be fit to be forgiven (I’m not sure that’s the word,), well then, forgive. The answer…

Agatha sat on the bed. She remembered her family. Each of them had loved fiercely. Herr Finkham loved Germany. Defending her was his purpose in life. He would not leave her to Hitler, and that was his death sentence. Sarah…

“There’s no way around it.” “Around what?” “A truth we both know.” “Iris, please. Stop being dramatic.” “Keri. Pushing it away doesn’t make it untrue.” Keri spun her engagement ring with her thumb. It was loose. She’d lost weight recently,…

There are some people who crash-land into your life, and these people, rare and precious, are what I would call "ferocious". Claudette is as multi-colored as any rainbow , deep as any emotional tidewater, as impressive as any steel-cut die,…

“Ferocity.” I don’t need to look it up; its root is “feral” as in cat-like, as in Big cat-like. Aggressive, possessive. At this point, in pain, I don’t have the energy to be ferocious about love. I don’t have love…