His mother finds it difficult to distinguish between life and fiction. Just yesterday, the saleslady in the lingerie department of Nordstroms called to tell him that his mother was parading around in matching bra and panty sets, claiming she'd been…

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I introduced them, so I guess I’m responsible for the subsequent pain twenty years later…this is a long tale….one about which I’ve already written 70,000 words of a memoir that will probably never see the light of day......maybe one day...who…

The first time I saw you, you were on the beach with two kids. I didn't yet know that they weren't yours, that you took your sister's on Saturdays throughout the summer to give her a break. The little one…

When we arrived in Dover Jean Pierre and I had a plan. First we would recover my '69 VW Bug; bought new in Scotland for 1,200 dollars. No shit. Jean Pierre would buy me a tank of gas and we…

True outrage is a great cleansing experience, at least for the truly outraged. It isn’t only catharthic, it is transformative. Outrage is like sexual climax, it burns, it lights up, it shivers it does all the great and good things,…

When I am presented with the subject of health care, my response is always, "You know I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 because he promised a national healthcare system. That was 48 years ago, what the fuck?" Then I…

At the Q&A that followed the screening of my film Thousand Pieces of Gold in LA this past weekend, one of the actors, Michael Paul Chan, described how he got an audition for the role of Hong King, the bad…

The light of outrage has started shining... "Finally", Kat sighed aloud as she read the lines she had just written. She put her pen down - that archaic instrument - and was taking long, slow breaths, re-reading and re-speaking it…

We had been rehearsing and performing QUILTERS all over the country and everywhere we went, audiences, enchanted by the stories of our brave pioneer women and their stories told in the quilts they made, received standing ovations everywhere. Audiences adored…