Friday, April 15, 2016

Spring in Kentucky (Haiku)



It;s that time of year
Flowers and trees are blooming
This is Kentucky



Sunday, April 10, 2016

Finding the Truth (Haiku)


Truth is here for us
Finding it is the struggle
It is up to us

There are many steps
On the stairway to heaven
Some are stuck on one

Some go one by one
Others take two at a time
A lifetime too short

Once it is achieved
We can possibly move on
To higher levels


Friday, April 8, 2016

The Little Screen (Haiku)


Images now real
Preset packaged and rehearsed
We expect perfect

Reality's not
It's always less than perfect
We prefer perfect

So we watch our screens
While life is passing us by
Seeing perfection

Tolerate the real
Enjoy perfect images
Escape to the screen

Spontaneity
Sacrificed for perfection
It's artificial!

Saturday, April 2, 2016

On Cooks (Haiku)


The only thing worse
Than a bad cook is one who
Thinks she's a good cook


Monday, March 28, 2016

Contact/ Or Not (Haiku)


Someone at the door
Ignore him, he'll go away
He does, leaves a card

The telephone rings
Too often, don't answer it
Leave me a message

I've got an Email
Too many, ignore them all
Fill up the inbox

Now there is Facebook
Posts and follows are rampant
Too many to see

Yet I sit alone
In a room full of people
And look at my screen

The one way to me
Is to get my attention
Going to my door

Round and round it goes
The getting of attention
Cycling forever

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Intelligent Choice (Haiku)


I will or I won't
Intelligent choices made
Change the course of life

Whom will I marry
From this will come the children
Slightly different

What is my calling
From this my contribution
A different world

We call it choosing
It is called evolution
When hindsight is used

When viewed at present
The changes seem minuscule
From afar they're vast

Thus we break records
Ever onward and upwards
Soon beyond the moon

There is a question
What fuels imagination
From which it all comes


All My Passions--Script Note


We just finished a run of performances of All My Passions, a play by Vin Moreale, in which I played the leading character, Everett Montague.  This is a Script note on that play/performance.

It is about a Soap Opera, All My Passions, and the show is sinking.  The leading man, Everett Montague, has become a liability to the show; 14 leading ladies in total and three of them in short succession.  The director, producer, and new head writer know that he has become a liability. 

Everett tells the producer of a past romance and she makes the connection of Everett to Eleanor, the primary sponsor of the show.  They all know that Everett has to go so Eleanor agrees to do it.

In the last scene, she gently removes Everett from the show. Everett enters the last scene in his costume, a smoking jacket, ascot, and toupee.  He takes them off.  After reuniting with Eleanore he puts on his blazer, which has been hanging on the hall tree for the entire performance from before the first curtain, and exits with Eleanor.  The End

The blazer is symbolic of his presence on the Soap; there until it, like he, is removed at the end.