The Call of the Wild
I take a moment to celebrate my 80th blog post by veering away from the fine and performance arts to share …
Category Archives: Musings
Three Tall Women and Two Short Ones
I recently attended the wonderful revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill, …
Better Angels
I visited the revival of Tony Kushner’s huge and important Angels in America last month, currently running on Broadway, a …
Legacy
When Martin Luther King was assassinated, I was 13 years old. We lived in a white rural area far away …
Genius Tales
What is it about stories that demand retelling? We are human, we like stories. We tell them to each other, …
A Christmas Lesson
In the U.K. they have a tradition of the “Nine Lessons and Carols” in church at Christmastime, where the lessons …
It Tolls for Thee
Bells have been around for as long as people have been on the planet. The actual bell as we know …
The Content of Her Character
From the moment we humans first developed speech, stories have been told about courage. It is seen as a manly …
The Woman Makes the Clothes
Nothing prepares you for the sheer energy of Rei Kawakubo’s designs. From the hands and imagination of this Japanese founder …
The Wave and the Mountain
The framed photograph of my mother, happy and dressed for my brother’s wedding, sits on a Korean chest in my …
