Tragedy Plus Time

Here’s how I feel about theater: Of the arts, ingesting books and paintings is important, but ingesting theater is also very important. Today I drove up to an improv theater where my yoga teacher has regularly performed, without me in the audience. (Sorry.) Now, I’ve done this before, paid for and showed up for what […]

spotlight

We had a breeze and one firefly as “My Fair Lady” wrapped up. We didn’t need it, but we liked it. One firefly lingered over the crowd, doubtless confused by the goliath light that poured toward Eliza and Henry Higgens, a powerful light too diffused to become a lover. I love the strange ending of […]

pink carnations

All my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]