Swimming Fish, Catholic Popes

Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Recently, StoryZ, my new theatre/performance group, gave a Free Improv Workshop. For the 8 people registered, we scheduled 1.5 hours of a little bit of talking and a lot of doing. At one point, someone said, as if she was drowning, “Is this an advancedContinue reading “Swimming Fish, Catholic Popes”

I’m a Meatatarian

What are your feelings about eating meat? In grade school at the Immaculate Conception of Saint Mary school (known more commonly as St. Mary’s), we often heard the delivery of animals to Fisher’s Meat Market. They slaughtered the animals on site, in the back. As I observe in my book Immaculate Misconceptions: Tales of CatholicContinue reading “I’m a Meatatarian”

Fish Out of Water?

Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. Fish Out of Water? Stranger in a Strange Land? Is there another phrase for not belonging? I know there’s Yank in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape who decides if things belong, and whether he belongs or not. The FOUW/SIASL is an excellent device forContinue reading “Fish Out of Water?”