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No. 98 Starting a New Theatre Company
“They say if you can’t beat them, join them. And there’s a similar saying in theatre – if you can’t find the work, make your own.” -- How...
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Jul 18, 20192 min read
No. 94 Seattle's Central Library: A Monologue in Progress
"You become a Baudelairean flaneur, inspecting and being seduced by a world of books and information - by the urban scenario." -- Rem...
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Jul 5, 20192 min read
No. 93 Me Showing My Work To You
Fitting the word to the action. This image is of my mornings writing for my play, “The Swing Years and Beyond.” I’ve started with one...
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Jun 22, 20193 min read
No. 86 The Big, Bad, Brilliant Virginia Woolf
"Only the fire sets me dreaming - of all the things I mean to write" I’m reading Virginia Woolf’s diaries. Though I’ve read all of her...
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Jun 20, 20193 min read
No. 84 Insomnia: Night & Day Pzizz
"When we fall asleep, I think we gain access to a mode of the universe that otherwise is inaccessible; dream-time and dream-space are as...
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Jun 13, 20192 min read
No. 83 The Game of No Artificial Light After Sundown
The breathing (snoring) gets heavy when the sun goes down. I'm a 54-year-old big baby about going to bed early."This is MY time!" "What...
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Jun 8, 20193 min read
No. 82 Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of May 2019
ONE: My Harsh & Hilarious Hate Letter to Myself. A friend is becoming a professional coach and she needs to clock in coaching hours. I...
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May 30, 20193 min read
No. 80 Optimist Devil & Despair Angel
“An angel sat on one shoulder, a devil on the other. Both of them wore my face.” ― Michelle Hodkin TODAY 7:10 am My morning reading...
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May 23, 20192 min read
No. 78 My Restoration of Restoration
Or How I Never Stopped Loving Periwigs and Petticoats I love when an article I come across is relevant for me and my work. Such is the...
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May 12, 20194 min read
Pattie's Top Ten Cultural Hits of April 2019 (4 -10)
In no special order. 4. The publishing of Playwriting, Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys 'What Stephen...
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May 6, 20193 min read
Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits (tonight 1 - 3) of April 2019
Over the next week, I will share my top ten cultural hits of April 2019 in no particular order. 1. NYT T-Mag April 14, 2019 “A microphone...
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Apr 5, 20193 min read
Pattie's Top Ten Cultural Hits of March 2019
(In no particular order.) 1. Agnès Varda. Read my blog post about her here: My Public Library from 5 to 7 2. Sally Rooney’s novel,...
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Apr 1, 20192 min read
No. 64 My Public Library from 5 to 7
In no particular order, I will be blogging about my top 10 cultural hits of March 2019 over the next week. NOTE: I had hoped this would...
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Mar 22, 20192 min read
Artistic Fun and Losing Track of Time
“Days were ages. Love bloomed and died in a day.” ― Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary Why, as I’ve gotten older, do the years go...
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Mar 3, 20192 min read
03.03.03 -- The Lysistrata Project
My weekly look back at the feats The Paradise accomplished. Tonight I signed the SHUNPIKE fiscal sponsorship contract giving me the...
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Mar 2, 20192 min read
Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of February
6 - 10 in no particular order. 6. Dreaming Murakami -- DM is a documentary about Mette Holm the Danish translator of Haruki Murakami's...
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Mar 1, 20192 min read
Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of February
In no particular order. 1. We get a taste of Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a whacked out collector of purses in Neil Jordan’s Greta with...
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Feb 23, 20192 min read
A Home for My Mind-y Unwind-ies
Is a visual reference for my mind palace a good idea? A few months ago I started using the free version of https://milanote.com/ to...
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Feb 17, 20192 min read
No. 35 My Sunday
"Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing." -- Miles Davis About once a week, I like to track my time throughout the day to keep...
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Feb 9, 20192 min read
No. 27 London's Urban Writers Retreat
“The biggest problem you’re likely to have as a writer is not actually writing.” -- Charlie Haynes, Urban Writers Retreat This video of...
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