Today’s Guest Cartoonist Sam Olmsted is a very active political cartoonist. Guest Blogger, John Jay Chapman, writes over one hundred eight years ago about a horrific event that took place a year before. I was greatly moved by the Coatesville lynching at the time it occurred, and as the anniversary came round my inner idea… Continue reading
The Jabot
A few years ago, my friend and WNO colleague Patricia Portillo told me she was creating a special jabot for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and wanted to know how she might go about presenting it to her. I told her I would happily speak to the Justice’s assistant Kim and let her know it was… Continue reading
“Sandra tells me you’re an opera singer!”
So began the conversation the afternoon I met Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Friday, March 25, 1994. The Justice was mid-way through her first Term at the Court, where I had been working at the IT Help Desk for two years. She had a pair of tickets to a performance at the Kennedy Center that evening… Continue reading
World War I Letters
While preparing props to use in an “In Flanders Fields” one-man show, I found on eBay a stash of twenty World War I era letters for a very reasonable price. I thought they’d be the perfect thing for stage dressing, and also to get an idea of the penmanship of the era, since I was… Continue reading
10-Day artist challenge
The directive was: Every day, select an image from a day in the life of a Performer/Artist—a photo from a day you felt fierce or a memorable moment you’ve had during a performance/show, and post it without a single explanation, then nominate somebody to take the challenge. Thats 10 days, 10 Performance photos, 10 nominations… Continue reading
What sweeter music. . .Leo Nestor
On Sunday afternoon, September 22 [2019], many of my dearest friends and musical colleagues and I learned of the death of Dr. Leo Cornelius Nestor. The obituary gives scant idea of the depth and breadth of his influence. When I find something more inclusive online I will post that. “Nestorianism” is defined as the doctrine… Continue reading
The Code of Uncertainty
No, that’s not a typo in the title of this post, but a lame pun. Our recent road trip away from our South Florida home, quickly planned and initiated of necessity before Hurricane Dorian made up his mind on where to wreak havoc, coincided with my increasingly-frustrating attempts to bypass the limits of the free,… Continue reading
100 auditions later. . .
When I began trying to break into the business of voice acting (or maybe that’s “voice-acting”) in early 2018, after getting my basic equipment set up (that will be another blog post) I started auditioning for titles that interested me on the Audiobook Creation Exchange website (ACX.com). ACX is where the rights-holders of books—typically the… Continue reading