What makes a good leader? It’s likely that I could write an entire volume (maybe a slim one) on what makes a good leader, based on my experiences as a theatre director in academia. Fortunately for you, and for the sake of brevity, I’ll only look at one aspect for this particular blog post. TheContinue reading “Come Follow Me”
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Love, Love, Love
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? When I first looked at today’s prompt, I ran through a series of people who might have expressed love in such a way that I felt enveloped by the emotion. I turned up empty, but before I began rewinding my memory tape, I rememberedContinue reading “Love, Love, Love”
The Future’s Passed
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? I have a lot of both paper and computer files that contain enough notes for me to use to write full time, eight hours a day, for another lifetime (at least). Sadly, I’ll never get the chance to do that unless IContinue reading “The Future’s Passed”
Come On, You’re Not Trying
This is another in a series of reports about how bad scammers are with improv. Here’s a screenshot of our “conversation.” There was a bit of a pause between “Sure!” and “How was your day?” but not enough to warrant iMessage to add a timestamp. However, my response about a great day must have confoundedContinue reading “Come On, You’re Not Trying”
Mission and Passion
What is your mission? In a bad poem, the two words of the title of this post might be thought to rhyme. While I would not try to force that onto any of my verse, I do think the two terms go hand in hand. I’ve often mentioned how, when meeting students at college campusContinue reading “Mission and Passion”
CV, Success, ca va?
What colleges have you attended? I had planned on going to college right after high school. I had selected a private Pennsylvania school (though I didn’t know about the private vs. public thing at the time) because they had a major in Cinematography, and at the time I wanted to be a film director. NeverContinue reading “CV, Success, ca va?”
Life Is An Atom
What are your biggest challenges? Now I could have started in ChatGPT and said, “Give me a metaphor for the challenges I’ll face in 2024,” but I already came up with that (in the shower, of course). I feel that I need to approach life in the new year thinking about the structure of anContinue reading “Life Is An Atom”
It Ain’t What It Used To Be…
What makes you feel nostalgic? Say the title. Then hear the rim-shot for the old joke. I read today’s prompt and thought, well, I can’t answer that. I never get nostalgic for past days. They are in the past and I generally don’t find myself getting wistful over memories (even though I do turn themContinue reading “It Ain’t What It Used To Be…”
If I Had a Sports Team
If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? To continue the song reference I begin alluding to in the title: If I had a sports team, I’d—actually I don’t know what I’d do. All bets would be off. It might be a sign of the apocalypse. I did follow theContinue reading “If I Had a Sports Team”
The Big 3
Who are the biggest influences in your life? During my Basic Terms lecture for my Intro to Theatre course, I would mention, during the course of talking about Ritual and Archetype, “my three heroes.” The first of these heroes was Joseph Campbell, whom I quoted as having called a ritual, “The enactment of a Myth.”Continue reading “The Big 3”
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