I couldn’t define specifically how or why, but I knew from experience that distributing our new film, The Dreamers and I, would not be simple. Not long ago, while having dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of people to…

We knew that a certain kind of person, one on President Scott’s List of Internal Enemies, which was a long list indeed, had snuck out to Canada and Mexico and further abroad. They were excoriated as traitors, cowards and deserters.…

Baking whoopie pies Doing long division Waiting for something to happen Growing eggplant Docking the boat Getting older and dealing with chin hair Cleaning old linoleum Avoiding processed foods Exercising every day Waiting for an email Reading Faulkner Picking cactus…

What is simple? Ah, if only....but the beauty and the curse, both existing at the same time, is that life is both a curse and a total beautiful blessing...and for whatever reason the Powers that Be made us be this…

It began with an annoyance, the type that reminds you of the encroachment of age and the too-fleeting retreat of one's youth. An ache when rising from a chair, a reach that causes a sharp pain and pull when it…

Trent stares through the grimy window on the 55 headed downtown. He lets his head bounce against the window, letting the city pass without judgment. He watches a mom in a heavy hooded puffy jacket struggle with her puffy jacketed…

applying to the academy getting past the guards just trying to make it, finds out her guardian has been controlling her with a collar "It will not be simple." "I know." A long pause yawned and stretched as best it…

The day Nicole offered a ride to the hitchhiker, she made believe it was to help this woman who was too ignorant to know that hitchhiking was dangerous. The truth was, Nicole needed an audience. She was headed into a…

Miramgul rose in the pre-dawn hours and though she dressed and moved in silence, she knew her mother had woken also.That despite her slow and carefully placed footfalls, a soundless toe then bone by bone to the heel, she knew…

My friend Beth was ambushed by her younger sister when they were up in the mountains staying together. Beth is one of five children. She’s the second oldest.Both her oldest sister and her youngest are deceased and neither she nor…

let these be different between two characters! let it influence their dialogue in productive, juicy ways! not as helpful as expected, more stubborn, fox and owl: fox and TK girl she's going through wanting to miss her, her own future…

With Jean Pierre's help we located the local hospital and found the emergency room. The nurse was very nice and helpful and I soon had eight stitches neatly sewn into my skull. I was no worse for the wear. I…