Month: August 2014

My whole plan was to get beyond my shyness and out of the house and go on thirty dates with people completely outside of my circle. I was going to learn so much about the world, bounce up against other personalities, and see how the other half lives. I was even going to write a play and pitched it to a collaborator. What I didn’t count on was actually meeting someone. What I didn’t count on was being well met. Date five, In walks one of the coolest cats on the planet and we’re crazy about each other. WHAT?! By the…

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I’m into my second week of this experiment with on-line dating. A very nice Catholic man wrote to me and wanted to meet me. He’s educated, works with children, reasonably good-looking. When he asked me what I was doing today I said (provoking what I suspected would be a deal breaker) that I was out enjoying the Pride celebrations and then off for a swim. He said something very ambiguous about “well…we pray…” Which left me wondering which way he leaned…suspicious of equivocation…so I pressed him further by saying something about liberal Christianity and the support for gay marriage. Then…

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I just got back from seeing Equivocation at Bard on the Beach. Boy, did tonight make me yearn to join that artistic family. It was a masterful feat. Not an easy play. Some tricky transitions, late introduction of devices in the writing, dense language, complicated plot…and entirely fascinating! Well executed. Beautifully and precisely performed, intelligently directed, courageously written. If nothing else, for having the audacity to say as much as the play did. Really made me think. Michael Shamata always makes everything sing. (the director) I love everything he does. So much so that I’m a complete IDIOT when I…

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