Ornamentaddict
Last night we put up our Christmas tree. It's a ritual we love. Set up the tree. Play amateur chiropractor. Align the Jaclyn Smith...
Sad, Convention of One
You know those circumstances where you actively avoid the person who is putting themselves out there? In NYC it would be the college...
Hey Hey It's the Monkey!
Before Johns Street we lived in downtown Madison in a beautiful old house on Rutledge Street across the street from a little park with a...
Ten Days
It has been ten days since the Pulse shootings on June 12th, 2016. Reactions have been as diverse as America. There have been peace...
Out in Africa.
A life in the arts can be an exhausting proposition. You have to use everything you are and everything you feel. If you don’t, that fear...
My dad.
Ray Triggs, my father, was sexy guy in a fish camp, Jack Daniels kind of way. Even at seventy-five years old, crippled by several...
Cruise Tips - Home Away from Home
I am on the final day of a Panama Canal cruise on DCL. It has been wonderful, but a small case of homesickness has set in. There are...
Interview with Lily Tomlin
When I was a kid, we lived in a house that also housed my father's aluminum siding company. I was a lisping, fat, artistic, gay kid and...
An interview with Bea Arthur.
When I was a kid, I had this twisted little fantasy that the characters on television were my friends. I would talk to them and tell them...
5 Things to Take on Your Next Cruise
After over 150 cruises, I know how to prepare for sea voyage. 5 simple things to consider: Body! Get ready for your trip and the...
