Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Cabrillo College Black Box Theatre, Aptos, California. November 4-19 2011

        Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters is a ruthless and delicate exploration of what it is to live the passing moments of a human… Read full post »

The term caught my ear recently, like a hook tied to some verbally tone-deaf person’s oratorical fly-fishing rod.

I looked further and discovered that “Jesus Ween” is the invention of a fundamentalist preacher called P… Read full post »

        Like it or not, most professional writers are also professional speakers.

        Do you talk with editors, clients, or interviewees? Do you interact with students? Or read your work aloud at conferences or public even… Read full post »

  Yesterday I was heading over to Trader Joe’s to buy one of those massive chocolate bars with the whole hazelnuts.

There are lots of empty parking places, but this guy in a van in front of me decides he HAS to have this one, particular spot that… Read full post »

The summer I was ten, I gave a one-girl performance of Romeo and Juliet on the lawn in our back yard.

I memorized the balcony scene, the potion speech, and (my favorite) the part where Jule is sobbing her heart out over Romeo getting kicked out of Verona. I reveled… Read full post »

     Donald Trump and his so-called “birther” movement radiate absurdity. Most of us Salon readers—in fact, probably most folks who read anything at all—agree that the whole issue is silly beyond words. It is, as Whoopie Goldberg said, “the bi… Read full post »