Enjoy the food, the drink, a few presents and most importantly–one another. “Tomorrow you can see Diana’s new piece.” Diana lives next door to my hostess and she’s a Liturgical Choreographer, whatever that means. Delightful—a free dance performance in Manhattan. On Sunday morning I head off on foot through Central Park to the Church where [...]
BAKING A MUSICAL FROM SCRATCH–Playwright and Producer’s diary SO FIRST I WROTE A PLAY: Maybe it was a crazy idea—aren’t they all. But I wanted to see more people like me on the stage. After all, there are a lot of us: educated baby boomers. career-women, divorced-Moms who’ve been around a few blocks. We’re reborn [...]
I’m busy getting all my print pieces in here. Then I’ll re-hook the audio into them. Sorry for the mess. Click on the title that sounds interesting. You’ll also find them in the chronological listing under PRINT and via the tags to your left. A Quiet Moment Allspice Alone The Avalanche of Loneliness in Small [...]
What is Chanukah all about? Chanukah, my children, Chanukah is the festival of socks. Each year the great Bubbe comes to the foot of each child’s bed and takes a sniff. “Och, gotenyu. What a smell. I can tell you need new socks, you little stinker.” And so, all over the world, at Chanukah, children [...]
You can teach an old car new tricks. When I moved to Portland, I bought my first car: a perfect green Rambler Rogue. I paid $1000 for a car that ran almost perfectly for years and worried that I likely overpaid. I spoiled her faded, matronly body, by plunging it into a small yellow truck [...]