Maybe during Covid I became a little too insular. Actually, I might’ve become a little too much a part of…
Storytelling groups are springing up all over the city. One of them recently called for stories about the best and…
In the 1946 film, “A Matter of Life and Death,” two newly dead WWII British pilots are on a tour…
There’s a reason I don’t look forward to the end of mask-wearing. It’s not that I’ll miss my Van Gogh…
Probably everyone knows we communicate nonverbally, though maybe not everyone knows exactly what we’re communicating. Stories are plentiful about travelers…
“Minari” actress Youn Yuh-jung stunned me by saying in a radio interview, “Self-sacrifice is human nature.” What a refreshing improvement…
I used to compare my family with characters in Edgar Allan Poe’s house of Usher who suffered from an acuteness…
Popular opinion says we’re simply a collection of stimulus-response and that our response to art is caused by effects of…
Mom would complain if Dad told his army stories, saying he was glorifying war. But that was like saying “Catch-22” glorified war.
They wondered what I meant by answering yes to the question about whether I could make a fair assessment.