Act I: The curtain rises
Reading Time: 4 minutes — WRITING LIFE — Wanting to trod the boards with playwright Henry Fielding, I take my story about Houdini and Margery to my first playwriting class.
‘Are We There Yet?’
Reading Time: 6 minutes – FICTION – ‘It’s too far’ said the tiny voice in the back seat. ‘Yes,’ her dad responded, ‘But look how far we’ve come!’ From “He Said, She Said.” 1,500 words.
In pursuit of ‘The Witch of Lime Street’
Reading Time: 4 minutes – REVIEW -To tell the whole story of the Margery mediumship would require voluminous research: newspaper coverage, personal correspondence and university archives, museum collections, stories told and retold by friends and family. I would never have the time or the scholarship to pull off a project like this one. Fortunately, someone finally did.
New Thoughts on Memorial Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes – COMMENTARY -For the first time in generations, we all have had a taste of what it’s like to be without the rights we have taken for granted.
Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon Hill
Reading Time: 7 minutes – WRITING LIFE – A story with great characters, conflict, action, and humor dropped on my desk as an intern. What to do? Second in a series.