Opera Piccola & SWEET Theater Founder

Opera Piccola (“small works”) is closing, almost twenty-four years after I founded it. So, what should we say about endings? We've all...

The end of E.B. White's "Stuart Little" has a thought that's stuck with me for a long time. Every goodbye is a hello. A ye...

The tall round-faced girl beams, breathing fast with excitement while her friends in younger grades admiringly surround her. The slender gir...

"...All the cherished moments they have made possible for those they left behind... all the things that make us alive.. these are the g...

I wrote a month or so ago about subbing in Oakland public schools. It's difficult; like being a stepmother in a blended family. The stu...

"Don't judge a book by its cover" and "the clothes make the man" are old -if opposite- cliches I grew tired of heari...

See Spot run. See Jane run. Perhaps Baby Boomers remember struggling with these dry phrases in kindergarten and first grade. Today's s...