Yesterday, I sat facing a table of four women and four children at Panera. The oldest of the children was a youngish teenage girl, primped and painted as we require. The next youngest was an overweight boy, maybe 12 years old, looking pretty standard-issue in his T-shirt, baggy shorts and tennis shoes. The other two […]
A couple of guys I know were doing a playwright the favor of producing his unpublished (and thus far unproduced) two-man show. But as it turns out, the playwright wasn’t interested in developing his work, only in hearing his words spoken exactly as he’d written them. The production has been cancelled. A strong finalist in […]
An old clinical social worker friend came to mind this afternoon. I miss her knack for defusing awkward social situations with tongue-in-cheek psychiatric advice. I miss her irreverence. If she’d been around me today and yesterday, I think she’d have said something along the lines of “Looks like Mr. B could use a few doggy […]
