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No. 33 This Photograph is My Proof
This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon. When things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy....
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Feb 14, 20192 min read
Ian McKellen Came Home with Me
“Welcome to Acting Shakespeare.” -- Ian McKellen I got so much good out of watching the new documentary McKellen: Playing the Part. It...
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Feb 13, 20191 min read
No. 31 Roald Dahl's Sleeping Bag
"You get really comfortable and then you're away." It is no accident that Roald Dahl has composed some of the most profound literature...
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Feb 12, 20192 min read
A Reading of Lynn Nottage's SWEAT
There is a fantastic immediacy and rawness that happens to a room when a play is being read out loud. There is nothing between the...
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Feb 11, 20192 min read
No. 29 Read a Fucking Book
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.” -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E....
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Feb 10, 20192 min read
No. 28 MedTEAtation
"As with wine, tea terminology can get flowery and high-flown, but the last thing we at Teanamu want is to promote any kind of tea...
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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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Feb 8, 20193 min read
No. 26 Shakespeare, TV, & A Podcast
Here are the rest of my January Top 10 creative inspirations. Nabhaan Rizwan and Roger Jean Nsengiyumva in Informer 5. The National...
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Feb 7, 20192 min read
No. 25 The Romans Are Coming
'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love -- Donovan Here is number 4 on my list of top cultural experiences and...
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Feb 5, 20192 min read
Seven Plays, Seven Deaths & A Queen
Inspired by Austin #StealLikeAnArtist Kleon, I’ve put together my January top artistic experiences and influences. Kleon’s is a top ten...
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Feb 4, 20192 min read
No. 23 Clocked
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid...
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Feb 3, 20192 min read
Ursala Le Guin Made Time
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit...
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Feb 2, 20193 min read
No. 21 Shurtleff's Thirteen
Part One: The “I’m Okay, You’re Screwed Up” Approach. "Happy to see this on display. Best acting book ever! --- Patron In an interview...
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Feb 1, 20194 min read
Guest Blogger: George Orwell on Tea
I have no argument with Orwell's excellent essay on tea. Though I put the milk in first, it warms up faster. "If you look up ‘tea’ in the...
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Jan 31, 20192 min read
No. 19 Memes for Writers
P A T T I E M = A Richly drawn thriller about an amorally compromised doctor’s failure to explore toxic friendships. This meme by...
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Jan 30, 20193 min read
No.18 Literary Managers I've Tea'd With
In 2014, I took myself to London for 50 days for my 50th birthday. Before I left the northwest, a Seattle union theatre had put out a...
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Jan 29, 20193 min read
No. 17 The Theatre Set Patricia Highsmith Built
“People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part...
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Jan 28, 20192 min read
The Mad Hatters of Montreal
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I...
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Jan 27, 20193 min read
No. 15 Keep Pattie Weird
“You’re a sweet girl and I’m so glad I got to know you. (Even if you are a little weird!) It’s been a fun year and you’ve been a part of...
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Jan 26, 20192 min read
A Most Dangerous Tea
"And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his "Billy" boiled. You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me" The Australian Tea Ceremony Billy...
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