Really Loving You Now

Into the breech of our life comes the sight of the other we might chance to love. It comes out of the blue. They enter the room and you look and it’s decided right then. Not for all of us. Some of us sneak up on it. We go to school with them, work with […]

Slow Down You Move to Fast, You’ve Got to Make the Morning Last

Running the mile in less than four minutes, we knew it could be done we just didn’t know what it might mean. Now the rate of change seems to sweep whatever it is we are doing now into the dust bins of our present. So we sit with one foot in the present while we […]

I Feel like a Natural Woman

Do you listen to your body? Do you overrule yourself and go against instinct? If you are in an odd situation how do you feel your way through things? Moving from performing to writing and then back again I am reminded of this physical guidance system built into our nervous system. I put a scene […]

Liberace as Lightening Rod

I think it is obvious. Some things are transparent. You can see right through them. Some people behave in such a manner and some places are like that too. What you see is what you get. In Washington DC there exist walls and fences. There is the secret service. There are barricades to stop vehicles […]

You Talking to Me?

A Place to Fight For Not A Place to Come for a Fight Here is our nation’s best known asylum for the rhetorically ‘toxified practitioner’ of the fine art of heated speech. I walked the Presidential portraits at the National Gallery. Nobody was around so I spoke to them about our nations present moment, how Congress has […]

A Day at the Beach

Madness it seems is not always confined to a mere individual. The whole lot of us can be convinced to run right off a cliff. We seem to be capable of collective irrationality. If I didn’t have an understanding of yoga, the game of paintball, or solitaire I might look with virgin like eyes and […]

Factual Straightjackets

Do you shop at the local produce markets that pop up in your community? I do. I relate to the whole notion of how much it costs to transport food long distances. I heard that because food from the southern hemisphere swirls in the opposite direction of food in the northern hemisphere that there is […]

To Hell in a Handbasket By Do-Gooders

How mean and nasty are you? I’m well shy of criminal mean and nasty but then I’m not talking about crime, I mean more generally about disposition, the essential direction of your personality. I’ve seen perfectly rational individuals once they are inside the construct of a relationship find that they have a pretty short fuse. […]

Forces to Reckon With

I think I am civilized. Finally I have crossed some threshold and arrived. I never much enjoyed being barbaric. My brutish phase has ended. In my twenties I had a temper. I could get so excited I couldn’t remember what I had become so excited about. Regardless I could stay mad for hours even if […]

Into the Belly of the Consumer Electronics Shows Beast

Here is the cauldron of capitalism. Here are the electronic innovators shining shrine to invention on a hill. In this case it is a convention center imagined as the biggest, most stupendous, most colossal sized exhibit hall man can imagine. Before you get excited be prepared to become exhausted. There are thousands upon thousands of […]