Thursday, January 8, 2015

Ease

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Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. Measure for Measure Act I, Scene IV 2014 was ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Finding the Light

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'Twas a rough night. Macbeth Act II, Scene III An acquaintance recently told me she and her family were off to Ohio for the holidays....
Thursday, November 6, 2014

An Age-Old Story

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Stop me if you've heard this: An elderly parent, quite possibly losing his faculties, engages in domestic discord with his offspring. Th...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Everybody Has a Story

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I have a confession: As autumn and winter settle in and early darkness descends, I enjoy evening neighborhood strolls because I spy. Yes, w...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A Book Is Born

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In 2006, I wrote a memoir about my first year creating and running the Shakespeare Club at a Los Angeles public school. In 2007, I met a li...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Juliet of the Subway

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It happened this week. It happened this way. So I'm told by my friend, the writer Heather Summerhayes Cariou (" Sixtyfive Roses...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

I Get It

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A few years ago I strolled past a fourth-grade classroom where a word had been tacked up: EMPATHY with little kid essays hanging below. I ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

And a Child Shall Lead Them

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I've been to my share of school meetings led by union presidents, school supervisors, politicians, principals, teachers and parent leade...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Book It

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Way back in 2005 I started an after-school Shakespeare program for little kids. The idea grew from two sources: 1. I was disturbed at high...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

From the Galaxy: Quvenzhané Wallis

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This sometimes happens. A breathtaking talent sent from the stars to become a star among us. A supersonic arrival delivered to shake us up ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Free to Leave

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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.... Hamlet Act III...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

An Open Book

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O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart May have some scope to beat.... Richard III Act IV, Scene I In addition to gathering crit...