so I signed up for eight weeks of voice lessons this summer. it was kind of fun and random to enroll at the local community college and get ...

there are magnolia trees, all over our neighborhood, with floppy blooms that are big enough to eat your face if they wanted to. even as...

I have two of the loveliest friends to thank for originally exposing me to Hamilton: friend Liz, who teaches high school English around here...

for the past two weekends I have been whirring here and there to and from academic conferences. they were pretty fun, if a little nervous-ma...

everything in the world today looks like art. lines of cut grass. fluffed and fraying cloud-piles above the trees. rust along the rims of...

I did mean to write yesterday, but the whole day rushed away around me and there was too much doing to leave time for writing. such is the g...

I drove to campus today. there were things to carry, so I thought I'd let my car help me carry them. and then as I left my office this...

there was a theatre festival. months and months back, colleague Jen was practically giving away tickets to it. I took two of them off her...

traveling is a thing I very much love, and I've been pretty lucky to find a million excuses for indulging in it, so I am not surprised t...

my original summer Shakespeare project was born in 2010 . eight whole performances lined themselves up everso neatly into that year, one for...

springtime is upon us. four years (or approximately fifteen hundred days) ago, I spent  a bit   of springtime   in the UK . in about six...

there is a large blue sticky note stashed somewhere with my old journals and calendar-books, with the words "try everything" writt...

a line from one of the plays I was lucky enough to see last month: "They say a dog sees God in his master. A cat looks in the mirror....

my review of Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing  was published last week in  The Journal of Electronic Publishing . it's nestled...

last evening I had the most delightful pleasure of being accompanied to the theatre. it was the opening night of Molière's  Les Femmes s...

last year, for what turned into a 2010 shakespeare project, I started in March and steadily made it all the way to September, one play each ...

here are Juliet and Romeo, posed so optimistically together, as if they have been resurrected them from their tombs in Verona and replanted ...

this month is two-thirds over. my plans for Henry V on the ninth deteriorated due to lack of planning and lack of vehicle: the show was sol...

Hamlet . I could've gone to see The Taming of the Shrew last weekend for much less money, but... Hamlet . it was awesome to see Ham...

my grandmother lives around the corner from this beautiful university, where every summer they feast on pure Shakespeare, garnished with a s...