Tag Archive: memories

Feb
20

MYTHistory: the mythology of history

I have a lot of writing projects in the hopper, and many of them are in that phase when they need a little more articulation. By writing about them here, I’m hoping to get some feedback and possibly meet new collaborators. This first one will be incredibly interactive soon, so I look forward to exploring …

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Dec
09

The Woman With Too Good a Heart

Last Monday, I woke up early and reviewed the new script I’m writing for children. If you know me, you know that waking up early is a feat unto itself, never mind brewing coffee without burning the house to the ground. As often happens, I kept getting trapped like quicksand thinking about the character of …

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Oct
17

Griots: oral storytelling

From Roots by Alex Haley, p714-715     “Our country’s oldest villages tend to be named for the families that settles those villages centuries ago,” they said. Sending for a map, pointing, they said, “Look, here is the village of Kinte-Kundah. And not too far from it, the village of Kinte-Kudah Janneh-Ya.” Then they told …

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Aug
23

Directors Lab West Alum: Che'Rae Adams & John Kauffman

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Continuing this series of Alum Profiles, I bring you Che’Rae Adams & John Kauffman: Che’Rae Adams I attended the lab in 2000 and it was fantastic! I met many other directors who were like minded and learned a lot about our community. My favorite memory…is when George Furth came and told his wild stories! My …

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Jul
22

Writing from Directors Lab West workshop

2008 Lab group picture

In 2008, I had the pleasure of attending the Directors Lab West, a series of workshops, talks, field trips and amazing cups of coffee with colleagues. Although more poetic to say that it’s hard to explain exactly how the Lab helped me and my career, that it just not the case. I can directly trace …

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Dec
07

beginning in hello and ending in goodbye

Some memories from childhood stick with you. Brief glimpses of  images stick to your brain lightly and you can’t shake them. One came back to haunt me recently. “Hans My Hedgehog.’ Part of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller series. The picture that is so clear in my head? That of a young bride throwing her husband’s …

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Sep
03

Journey through my past thirty years–in 'things'

….via two large boxes from home. She warned me.  My mother sent an email after shipping off two boxes of  things she ‘would have scrapbooked but obviously won’t get to,” — the next logical conclusion was that I would want all of these ‘things.’ First of all, kudos to Mom for clutter-clearing!  Especially these ‘things’: …

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Aug
11

My mother taught me……..

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In honor of my mother’s birthday (go, Leos!), I am listing many things I believe she taught me.  There is no way to make this list all-encompassing.  I simply want to show my appreciation.  Here goes! My mother taught me……….. 1. I am beautiful. 2. If you’re going to do something, you really should do …

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Jul
15

Locking the door during the lesson

I just finished a grant.  But that’s not what this post is about. The grant made me think about 1999, when I traveled through Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia to study theater. To say it changed my life is the epitomy of minimization. But I was really thinking about this woman on the plane.  Direct lift …

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Jun
06

A good adage for Clutter Clearing – Day 2

One very tricky thing about clearing shared clutter is that sometimes you don’t know how attached your partner is to different items. For instance: I have gone through three phases of streamlining my comic books, and it was down to about twenty.  Once I confirmed with my guru of all-things-comic Corey Blake that no one …

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Jun
03

clutter-clearing question of the day

If I thought I had thrown something away that used to be very dear to me, and I didn’t feel badly about it then, should I feel badly about throwing it out now that I have the choice? There should be a clutter-clearing buddy system.