Marvelous Montréal: July 2016
Monday, July 25, 2016 After a week satisfying my Francophilia, exploring Québec City and environs with Steve, my sister Clarissa and her » Read more
Cities
Québec City, July 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016 I think I have known for most of my adult life that I would like Québec City. What’s » Read more
Hamilton-mania: New York, May-June 2016
“What’s your name, man?” “Alexander Hamilton, My name is Alexander Hamilton.” The musical story of the driven “10 dollar founding father” was » Read more
Chasing cherry blossoms: Part 2 (Kyoto)
Monday, April 4, 2016 After an overnight recovery stay in Tokyo, we were on to Kyoto, hoping our timing for cherry blossoms » Read more
Chasing cherry blossoms: Part 1 (Tokyo)
Monday, April 4, 2016 In early April, 2016, we were perfectly positioned to partake in that most Japanese of pursuits: hanami, or » Read more
Seattle: Chihuly’s Boathouse, February 2016
Many threads wove together to bring us to Seattle for a Valentine’s Day weekend trip, starting with a happy accident. Back in » Read more
I Ran Over My iPad: Part 9
I Ran over My iPad, My Mother Died, Then the Shit Got Real: An illustrated autobiographical tragicomic novella in 10 chapters by » Read more
2015 Highlights
One of my favorite shows as a child was the Time Tunnel, in which a pop art striped black and white time » Read more
I Ran over My iPad, My Mother Died, Then the Shit Got Real: Part 4
Part 4: The Broken Stick Mary called to tell me that her beloved wooden-handled 20-year-old walking stick was broken. Me: “Can it » Read more
La Jolla Playhouse WoWs again! October 2015
The extraordinarily warm weekend of October 9-11, 2015 was further heated up by the 2cd biennial WoW (Without Walls) festival of theatre » Read more