A Dickens of a play!
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (Subtitle: Lucinda Stroud murders it!) is alive and well, and onstage at Portland Center Stage’s main stage through February 14. The novel was [...]
Wherein more is revealed
This is a very dull and quiet time of year…if you are a cat. If you are a human, this human, it’s a different story. My brain is racing like a squirrel in a squirrel exerciser as the [...]
A sad tale well told
In Clifford Odets‘ famous play Golden Boy, young Joe Bonaparte (Ty Boice) must choose between a violin and a pair of boxing gloves. It’s New York City during the Great Depression. Joe [...]
The reading life 2015
The curtain has fallen on another year of great books, and it’s time to take stock of what has passed. Nearly six months ago I did a little mid-year check in, and I realize that most of the [...]
52 years ago today
I have been thinking all of this New Year’s morning about New Year’s Day 1964. That day 52 years ago, the Nyssa High School marching band, nearly 100 of us including chaperones, were [...]