You Answer It

Blog Categories

You might not want to click the hat.

Sam's hat

thursday, october 20

Thursday morning, in the wee hours, I checked the Salisbury Post website on my phone and read the newly posted review of my play, Poochie.

It was a great review, so the normal action to take, next, would have been to celebrate the good publicity by posting a link on Facebook.

But

Continue reading thursday, october 20

waiting for a parent to die

A fear that looms large in our childhoods and throughout our lives.

There comes a point (around age 30?  40?  50?) when we start to feel lucky.  Our parents have beat the averages.  We’ve seen our friends go through this while our parents are still with us.  We’ve talked about mom and

Continue reading waiting for a parent to die

Ultimate Entertainment

//

I like drama okay.  I love humor.  My favorite passages in books are those moments of irony — usually toward the end when you’ve lived with the characters a good while — when humor and tragedy collide.  This is what makes a masterpiece:  a work that makes us laugh, love,

Continue reading Ultimate Entertainment