“How’s this?” asked James, leaning heavily on the shovel handle. He wiped a sleeved arm across his sweaty forehead. I tilted my head and looked down at him; he was standing in a two-feet-deep by four-feet-wide hole on the beach. “Almost...
July was a painful month for Mariner baseball fans. Seventeen losses in a row, when you figure in the All-Star break, equates to a full three weeks of misery. But from July 6th clear through July 26th, not a single “W” was posted in the M’s standings. The tide swung...
Killer Clam Tide, my latest one-act comedy, is now in rehearsal! Rita Smith is directing, and I’m thrilled with her and with the cast she’s chosen. It’s so exciting to hear my words coming out of the actors’ mouths. This is my fifth one-act to hit the boards in the...
Life Coach Martha Beck has once again given me something interesting to consider. In the May edition of “O” Magazine, she identifies six types of people who will steal your good mood and drag you down to their level of misery—if you let them. Martha calls them Puppy...
Right off the bat, I’ll admit I have a little trouble with long-term commitments. And when I say long-term, I’m talking anything over five or six months. In relationships, the honeymoon is definitely over by month five. That’s usually when the top of your partner’s...
