I wrote my first play when I was ten. Wrote, directed and produced Black Widow, starring my playmates in the neighborhood. Our family garage in the backyard served as the stage. We were in rehearsal one afternoon when Britt Leach skidded his bicycle down the gravel driveway. Britt lived a few blocks away. He was [...]
Fifteen years old. My friend’s mother invited me along on a trip through the Caribbean. A heady invitation for me. People didn’t hop across oceans back then quite like they do now and spring break meant two days off from school to play in the back yard. Leaving the country was a big deal. At [...]
Did he go to Auburn? Wore an orange jump suit to all the football games? You know when you’re watching a game on TV and there’s always one voice in the crowd who yells over all the rest? He’s the one. And I had a blind date with him once.
A cell phone rang during a performance at the Atlanta Symphony last night—-rang during that silence between movements. The conductor held his baton until its red-faced owner could turn it off. The phone wasn’t in the audience. Nope. It was on stage. Belonged to a member of the orchestra.
