Words of Love was the first play I ever wrote. It was first performed professionally Off-off-Broadway at The Storefront Theatre back in 1988. Some pieces of the “play” date back to 1985.
Romantic Pain is one of those early pieces. It’s layout, language, and phrasing were inspired by the work of...
Love kills, you know. Forget all that “People don’t kill, guns kill,” crap right now, because it’s love that kills. When you have invested your heart in someone, one of two things can happen: it’ll pay-off, or you’ll go bankrupt. Well, since I’m not bouncing off the walls singing, “I’ve Got To Be Me...
It wasn’t Mabel’s fault. Really, it wasn’t.
For as long as she could remember, her father had been ill. So, of course, her mother, a truly intelligent and resourceful woman, had taken any job she could find. After all, someone needed to take care of Father, Mabel, and little Andrew.
So it really...
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At Rise: Valerie is at home taking care of her plants. She waters a few of them with a sprayer humming thoughtlessly. She takes down a hanging potted plant and brings it to a coffee table to prune it.
VALERIE
Look at what happened here. I don’t believe this. Hasn’t Paige been...
To say this has been a pet project “for some time” doesn’t really do it justice. The earliest drafts that I have specifically along these lines are over 10 years old. The oldest piece of it has young Percival waking from a dream and feeling that he has got to find Gawain, who he has only seen around...
This is my retelling of Percival as the Grail winner. I have used references from Gawain and Ragnell, the Lais, Parzival, Excalibur, and The Winter King. This has been a pet project for many years.
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As you know from my last article, I spent most of my Computing Life as a Mac User. I was even part of the OS X Beta Test. Back then, I was overjoyed to be able to load Stone Design’s Create on my G3/333 Powerbook.
For most of my adult life, I have been a loyal Mac User. My first Mac was an SE. My first laptop was a Powerbook 145. But, this is not a story about my first Macintoshes. It is about my last one and what I use for a computer now.
