“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...

"You become a Baudelairean flaneur, inspecting and being seduced by a world of books and information - by the urban scenario." -- Rem...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

ONE: My Harsh & Hilarious Hate Letter to Myself. A friend is becoming a professional coach and she needs to clock in coaching hours. I...

“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...

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...

In no special order. 4. The publishing of Playwriting, Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys 'What Stephen...

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...

(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,...

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...

“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...

My weekly look back at the feats The Paradise accomplished. Tonight I signed the SHUNPIKE fiscal sponsorship contract giving me the...

6 - 10 in no particular order. 6. Dreaming Murakami -- DM is a documentary about Mette Holm the Danish translator of Haruki Murakami's...

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...

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...

"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...

“The biggest problem you’re likely to have as a writer is not actually writing.” -- Charlie Haynes, Urban Writers Retreat This video of...