Alter Egos

Who Else Am I?

There’s a lot about Stephen A. Schrum on this site, but I thought I’d introduce you to my other personalities…


Missing From The Odyssey

So I saw The Odyssey. My first reaction is: why were people on the conservative right so triggered by this film? Because it had a  trans actor? How would we even know this? Perhaps more importantly: Why would we care? And as far as an African-American woman playing Helen of Troy, she had so little…

Please Don’t Hand Me Your Trash

What is it about women who hand me their trash? Do all women do this? Do men ever do this? To explain: my late wife would do this all the time; she had some item or items of trash and, rather than walk them to a receptacle, would hand them over to me. And not…

Night of the Burning Posse

This is another of those crazy memories that just pop unbidden into my brain. At Temple University, the theatre majors were a pretty closely knit group. Oh, of course there was gossip and back-biting (I quote myself: “My mother always said, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all, or go into…