That’s how it goes. (I wrote this in November 2016) This has been a week of painful, powerful and potent losses. The election being the first, and ultimately the one which has engendered the most fear and sense of loss– for our country, for our world and for our very lives. As Garrison Keillor said,…
Housatonic A great red barn bedecked with cupolas, immense double doors and a many gabled roof, stood ornate and stately behind the ordinary homes off-Kirk in Housatonic. That house will always be our home no matter who lives there now we are gone. Abandoned to the winds for forty years, we bought her cheap and…
Family Mythologies. Haven’t we all experienced them? You know, the kind of stories that are handed down at our Mother’s knee – or someone’s knee. Stories that we have heard all our lives and truly believe, and then suddenly somehow, somewhere we learn the truth, often when it’s too late to refute the original story because…
Born into a theatrical family during World War II, I came to America in 1959 and have worked in the visual and performing arts for all my American life. After a career in the theatre as an actor and stage manager, I married actor Colgate Salsbury. We moved with our daughters to Housatonic, Massachusetts in…
Previous readings January 8, 2022 The Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY April 2, 2022 Malden Bridge Community Center for North Chatham Library July 8, 2022 The Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA September 10, 2022 Chatham Public Library, Chatham, NY November 5, 2022 Kinderhook Public Library, Kinderhook, NY January…
