The more-or-less first show I ever wrote is being performed at a retirement community in Greenville this August 15. It’s a variation on a 45-minute adaptation of The Ransom of Red Chief that I set to music in 1992 and called The Ransom. Its first incarnation was a school tour built around 4 professional actors who’d […]
Janet is back in Italy, this time for over a month. She’s working as a stitcher for what I think is an opera company of either relatively young or student musicians. Could have that wrong. I wonder when it will stop seeming strange that this person I lived with for 17 years is completely and […]
This is the first year in over twenty that I won’t have a yard to care for. It’s somewhat comforting to know that I at least own a yard in Columbia, even if I have no contact with it. The garden at the Wheat Street house had become a major preoccupation of mine over the […]
