Category Archives: Writing
Birthday Poem 2020
The graffiti under the bridge is the only color on this sepia-tone day The snow covered-teeth of Sheep Mountain’s wide grin, like a handsaw lost from the tool shed left out over the winter in the frozen corpse of grass … Continue reading
How We Live & Dream: Theatre in a Time of Social Distancing
For the past five weeks, I’ve been directing a fantastic cast in a set of four short plays by Tennessee Williams at the Blue Slipper Theatre in Livingston, Montana. Livingston is a small, mountain town of railroad workers and writers, … Continue reading
Riding w/ Strangers #3: Another Child Soldier
It was my second cross-country train ride. First a section of the “Blue Water” route from Flint, Michigan to Chicago. From Chicago, it’s the jingoistically named “Empire Builder,” cutting through the lands of the Ojibwa, Lakota, Blackfeet and Salish. The … Continue reading

