Midsummer Night’s Dream (no, not the horror movie!) is still being presented at the Ashland Oregon’s Shakespeare Center’s brilliant Bowmer theater. The stage juts into the audience, inviting all to attend the Court of King Theseus in Athens and his upcoming marriage to Hippolyta, late the queen of the Amazons. … Read More

In 1966 I didn’t really even know what to call Bill Warshal, my father in law to be. Should I say Mr. Warshal? Bill seemed disrespectful. “Mr. Bill,” his moniker at the family business, Warshal’s Sporting goods, was no better. His intra family title, ‘Fazio’ or ‘Faz?’ Out of the question. I mean how could you talk man to man with a person you addressed as “Fazio”? My fiancé, Laurie, his doting daughter was of no help either. He was just ‘Faz’ to her. Maybe he was just to be “Laurie’s Dad.”… Read More

A consuming thought in your head: that’s where writing a book begins. Writing a book involves a compulsion, a driving need to demonstrate what happens when a person or persons are seized with a need to act. … Read More