I accepted the job figuring that I would just be passing through and before long, I’d be back working as a Production Stage Manager. I guess it’s a safe assertion that I considered being out of work far more of an insult than the meager 200 dollars a week that the corrupt asshole was willing…
The destructiveness in a small town Connecticut school is beyond the realm of mere insanity. And yet as we grieve, enduring the seemingly insurmountable realizations of life’s turmoils, what remains is the unseemly task of carrying on and moving forward with what we have left – vocations and avocations without real substantive meaning. But giving…
Solitary Solemnity Solemnity “Keeping time,A marvelous asset,Free from the entrapment of a timepiece of any kind;Forever yours, if you so choose.When dreary, feeling what once was,Rewards still remain,Always they’re within the time kept;Forever yours, if you choose!” – HK …Was it that long ago? Four thousand men and some women and children remained gathered…
At long last I have agreed to write a series of rather important documentation for the entire world to see. Since I have been God gifted with so much more knowledge than the average human, it was pointed out to me (by one of the individuals who makes up part of the hordes who love,…
Was it the late great Harry Hamlet who said: “To Proselytize or Not To Proselytize”? “To proselytize or not to proselytize” – It shouldn’t be the question but how often it is. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine as well. From the dictionary: Proselytize Convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one…
Good bad or indifferent, there are always those who seek out wiggle room in all they attempt to accomplish in life, or in any pursuits of the good life, or even a slightly better life than fate has bestowed upon them. Here are some personal definitions I’ve developed along my way. · I prefer jeans…
For most of us, Veterans Day comes once each year and its scheduled on a calendar date allowing banks, and schools to observe it. As an example, this year Veterans Day falls on a Sunday so it will be observed on Monday, the first workday of the week. The once-a-year observance has been going on…
My favorite game is not my favorite actual happening. I’m referring to a game we played in an acting class way back when I was a teenager. The teacher who introduced us to the game used it as a stream of consciousness drill. It worked out so well, and we all became so proficient at…
I conducted my own impromptu poll of those described by me as “The Thumbers” – those people who successfully communicate through electronic devices by the use of one thumb on each hand, used singularly or in tandem, with reckless abandon. As a casting director, what I do for a living is called profiling. My question…
The northern outreaches of Korea were an abstraction on my own and very personal, daily canvas. They were almost all surreal days for me. At age nineteen, my only self-recognizable skills were those that had been God-gifted to me as an athlete. It had never occurred to me that reading and seeing were all part…