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Truths about Time

College football is not everything. It is not worth your full attention on Saturday afternoons when your time is a pot of boiling water about to spill. After fifteen years, time shows me I still don't like Emerson and Thoreau. Yet, Mark Twain - for me - still cuts the BS and gets to the story.… Continue reading Truths about Time

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Remembering Sandy Hook Elementary

The story is everywhere. You flip from one channel to the other, and you see the broadcast reporters in the same place: Newtown, Conn. The questions are the same. Why would someone shoot twenty children and six school staff? How could this happen? As artists, we seek to discover a character's motive for an action… Continue reading Remembering Sandy Hook Elementary