Aug 25, 2023 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre - Uncategorized - Writing
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and how the Capulet-Montague feud inspired a series of historical novels I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was JULIUS CAESAR, and I hated it. In high school, it was ROMEO & JULIET, which...
May 26, 2019 | Current Affairs - Essential Posts - Family - Uncategorized
A couple years back, I was explaining racism to my son, Dash. He was baffled by it, as was I at his age. He lives in a truly diverse neighborhood and goes to a truly diverse school. While he’d studied racism in class, he thought it was a thing of the past.“Oh no,” I...
Sep 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
My wife was playing Cat Stevens in the car this morning as she took the kids to school. Our 10 year old daughter, a fan of all things horror – even the stuff she’s not allowed to see – was frightened by the song “Moonshadow.” I thought...
Feb 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today a teenager asked me for relationship advice. Awkward? Absolutely. I want to know nothing at all about teenage romances. I remember my own far too well. Fortunately, I have a catch-all piece of relationship advice that Jan and I have relied on for years....
Jan 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
There’s been a great deal of talk about violence in media (meaning film and video-games), painting all fictional violence with a damning brush. It’s an important conversation, and one I’d like to have. But I’m not for toning down the violence in film. I’m for...
Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
2014 has been pretty astonishing. There is so very much to be grateful for, and so much to rail at the heavens over. But I'm going to focus on the things I'm grateful for tonight. The Michigan Shakespeare Festival had a truly stellar season. Under my...
