Pope Francis’s 2015 war on climate-denying capitalists – MarketWatch

Honey it’s the Pope… He wants to know what the hell you think you are doing In a most adorably confrontational tone Paul piles on with the Pope to deliver a black eye to the wide world of capitalists unwilling as of yet to come to the negotiating table and agree to a sustainable more […]

Edward Abbey’s Cathedral

Tubac Southern Arizona Forget about Tucson. It has been eaten. People I care about are trapped there in their cars. We are wasting away just north of Nogales. We are happy hour humbled by the naked truth of unoaked chardonnay as our enlightenment gateway. The cowboy here is so long ago. The standin stuntman […]

Flows

I am approaching the halfway point here in Mexico’s Riviera Maya where I am breaking in a new monologue There has been a great deal of destructive behavior. I’ve had to rewrite, re-test and revise again and again. I was backstage last night waiting to come on and get into the “flow.” Performing is concentration, […]

Working the Script

A breakthrough day. But, then only as far as knowing where I want to go. That doesn’t matter as much as memorizing and then testing the material in front of an audience to be sure they’ll go with me. “A reviewer explained what she liked most about my latest book. She said it was all […]

In Defense of Obama | Rolling Stone

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He Got Me and I Got Him… The Storymaker

Alan Plotkin 2014’s recipient of the Golden Finkel We are never alone. Sometimes it seems so. Some days on the road rolling from date to date- show to show, especially back in the day prior to cell phones, I could almost pretend to be in total isolation, an immaculate detached state of being in a […]

Man Found Alive, Breathing

The wonder of new friends with humor in their bones….

FULLY INFORMED FUTILITY

The fact of human caused climate change, human caused financial crisis, and governments inability to respond sounds the warning shot in our need for charting a more skillful path forward from this messy here….

Close Your Eyes and You’ll Miss YOU…Tomorrow I’ll….

Blinded By the Light… What is your narrative? How much of the story do you know by heart? How much of your narrative remains hidden from you? Thought experiment! “I’ll never get that job. I’m no good at math. I’m always late.” Some of our narratives are harmless while others are not. […]

A Day in the Year of a Life of an Author…

The Sycamores of Calella, Spain February 2013 Sixteen months ago I put my second novel Bankrupt Heart on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I printed off 50 copies and those have been distributed to influential helpers or sold to fiction readers. At the same time I began plotting my third novel, a comedy with the […]