

My good friend and a great actor, Tobias Andersen, at 79, playing King Lear
An Equity Actor who is well known in the Portland, Oregon, area, Tobias is currently playing - at the tender age of 79! - King Lear,...
From A Christmas Carol
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas...
From ghoulies . . .
For Halloween From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go BUMP in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
The Moth and the Star
A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star. He told his mother about this and she counseled him to set his...
Wisdom from the Dalai Lama
Wisdom from the Dalai Lama Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other....
A Fine Thought from Derek Walcott
''Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was...
Midsummer, Tobago
Broad sun-stoned beaches. White heat. A green river. A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing...
Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at...
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
This beautiful, renowned, and much loved Irish song begins my fact-based novel, Of Bliss and Granted Wishes, and plays a significant part...
Lucrezia Triumphant
Lucrezia, annoyed at his hesitation and in a voice surpassing the sharpness of her blade, urged, “Come, come, shyness does not become a...