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No. 19 Memes for Writers
P A T T I E M = A Richly drawn thriller about an amorally compromised doctor’s failure to explore toxic friendships. This meme by...
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Jan 31, 20192 min read


No.18 Literary Managers I've Tea'd With
In 2014, I took myself to London for 50 days for my 50th birthday. Before I left the northwest, a Seattle union theatre had put out a...
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Jan 30, 20193 min read


No. 17 The Theatre Set Patricia Highsmith Built
“People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part...
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Jan 29, 20193 min read


The Mad Hatters of Montreal
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I...
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Jan 28, 20192 min read


No. 15 Keep Pattie Weird
“You’re a sweet girl and I’m so glad I got to know you. (Even if you are a little weird!) It’s been a fun year and you’ve been a part of...
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Jan 27, 20193 min read


A Most Dangerous Tea
"And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his "Billy" boiled. You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me" The Australian Tea Ceremony Billy...
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Jan 26, 20192 min read


Do Digital and Art Still Need to Get a Room?
Go flirting to serve the Lords of Social Media as a showgirl or wizard, or, looking for adventure, to wander from platform to platform of...
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Jan 25, 20193 min read


No. 12 Ibsen's Queen
Norway's Liv Ullmann sometimes gives names to the people in her book, but most of the time she does not. In my mid - twenties when I was...
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Jan 24, 20192 min read


No. 11 Charting Characters In My Play
It is five o'clock on a winter's morning in my home. Alongside the platform of my mind stands a train majestically full of a cast of 13...
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Jan 23, 20191 min read


No. 10 The Splendor of Female Artistic Sovereignty
Last night I dreamt I went to Firenze with Gucci again. One of my fangirl indulgences is the magazine The Gentlewoman. It comes out twice...
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Jan 22, 20191 min read


No. 9 Bliss and Loving in Tea City
I was somewhere around Paddington on the edge of Edgware Road when the tea craving began to take hold. Thirty years ago, at the age of...
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Jan 21, 20193 min read


No. 8 L'enfant Badass
A Young African American Playwright Takes No Prisoners Playwright Jeremy O Harris first came to my attention last month when his...
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Jan 20, 20192 min read


No. 7 How I'm Learning to Write
Something clever goes here :-) About three month ago, I picked up Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like an Artist at my public library. I had...
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Jan 19, 20192 min read


No. 6 This Tea has a Backstory
A former infantry officer in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division starts a tea company I am a devoted drinker of Harney and Sons teas,...
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Jan 18, 20192 min read


No. 5 Burning Her Candles
This video landed in my Twitter feed the other day. It is a film of poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay skinny dipping with...
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Jan 14, 20192 min read


No. 4 Seven Enviable Ensembles
What if you are a UK company of performance artists that generate their own work but struggle to self - produce? London’s New Diorama...
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Jan 10, 20191 min read


No. 2 The Trouble with the Tea Lady
Did a British woman rip off a Nepali woman for the price of tea? There have been battles waged over tea for centuries. (The first Opium...
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Sep 16, 20183 min read


No.1 Brian Eno and The 14/48 Festival
A Theatrical Experience Without the Ego Who can name artists who died by the age of 27? Here’s a partial list. Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)...
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Sep 16, 20183 min read


No. 3 Pome /pōm/noun BOTANY
a fruit consisting of a fleshy enlarged receptacle and a tough central core containing the seeds, e.g., an apple or pear. Every morning a...
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Sep 16, 20181 min read
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