Follies

I’m not comfortable with turning 50. Before I turned 30, I thought, I gotta get my shit together. So I arranged to get my teaching certificate before I turned 30. Before I turned 40, I thought about Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate,” and reassured myself that I had moved to New York City, and had […]

Toil and Trouble

When you are on lockdown half a block from a murder, and later are told you probably know the shooter personally, it’s a bad week. When you are told the person who’s probably the shooter but who really knows has said he is so sorry, that is the next week, and it ain’t great, either. […]

Tragedy Plus Time

Here’s how I feel about theater: All my first crushes were theater boys. I have read a huge number of theater theory books, and believe Brecht and Artaud are correct, though I certainly enjoy a lot of things they wouldn’t. I have read an enormous number of actor biographies, including but not limited to Julie […]

Skies

I have two opinions on UFOs: they are real, and they’re not. They are real in that my grandpa, the grandpa I barely knew, was a professional pilot, and he said every pilot had seen things. Every pilot had seen things, he said, and pilots know what weather balloons and satellites and reflections look like. […]