Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
Running Reubens
Today, I'm returning for my second weekly shift at Katzinger's Delicatessen. I will bring your sandwich to your table between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. today. Of course, now that I have already worked a full two-and-a-half-hour shift — last Friday at lunch — I am...
What’s Next? (Follow-up from the session with Artie Isaac)
Thanks for your time and participation during our session on Choosing Words. Thank you for the experience and, as I said, I am very grateful for what you have chosen to do for a life — and for your clients and donors. During the session, I promised to follow-up with a...
What’s Next? (Follow-up from the session with Artie Isaac)
Thanks for your time and participation during our session. Thank you for the experience and — as I said — I am grateful for what you have chosen to do for a life and your customers. During the session, I promised to follow-up with a couple of items. Here they are: If...
Job Description
Are you the self-important center of the universe? A TestDo you go to the bookstore and treat the clerk — who happens to have a graduate degree in literature — like a bit player in your own made-for-TV-movie? As part of your solipsistic orientation, do you seek to...
My New Summer Job
When I was a youth, I had a bunch of summer jobs that I really loved. Between the ages of 13 and 22, I was a paper-boy, lawn-cutter, dish-washer, farm-hand, beer-jockey (in a beer drive-thru), taxi-driver, bank-teller, and bar-tender. Each hyphenated job connected...
Three Inspiring Paragraphs on Creativity
Perhaps you saw this during 2008.It so wonderfully considered and expressed; I am enjoying reading it again today.The Obama Arts Policy Committee asked committee member and author, Michael Chabon, to describe the critical importance of the arts at this moment of...
To A 13-Year-Old Son
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." — Mark Twain Kids grow up faster these days. With you at 13, I...
Sweet Treat
It's become quite a tradition. Whenever I'm in a play, my mother makes candy for opening night. (Like tonight.) Not just for me. Not just for the cast. For everybody. Every last person in the theatre. Jackie (that might be "Mrs. Isaac"...
Thinking Of You
You know this. You know how people sometimes pop into your head. Perhaps you pass a landmark — maybe just an intersection — and it brings a specific person to mind. You think of the story he shared. Or maybe the insight she revealed. A comment made...
Why Act? To Fail Brilliantly!
In the wings of the stage, or out in the empty house, or in the green room, while some of the cast rehearses on stage, the rest of us wait to be called for our next scene on stage. We chat quietly. A Recurring TopicWe chat about our characters and our motivations. We...
