Let me start with a confession. I shamefully admit to having not been a Beatles fan growing up. I pledged my allegiance to a different monumentally influential singer-songwriter, and refused to consider any other artist on the same level. If pressed, I would reluctantly agree that the Beatles were alright, especially George. I knew their songs from...
Read MoreNon-Fiction Sundays: Letting Go
It was, I later thought, as if I’d been carrying a bouquet and he’d asked me for a single daisy. He loved flowers, I loved flowers, and wasn’t it beautiful that our mutual appreciation could transcend our various differences, and somehow bring us together? I must have thought, too, that had the situation been reversed he would have been happy to ...
Read MorePhotographic Saturdays: Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was possibly the most pioneering American female photographer in the 20th century. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet workers, the first female war correspondent She was the first female ever allowed to photograph in combat zones) and the first female photographer to work for Life,...
Read MorePoetic Friday: “Phoenix,” D.H. Lawrence
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. The phoenix renews her youth only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down to hot and flocculent ash. Then the small stirring of a new small bub in the...
Read MoreScreenwriting Thursday: Inverted Scene Order
Most storylines are comprised of a clear beginning, strong middle, and definitive end. But as long as this has been the standard, writers have been reworking it. The typical arch has been reworked to great effect by novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and now screenwriters. Film as an art form is a relatively new field, and the past decade has...
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