Being 50

I remember thinking that I’d be 36 years old when the year 2000 came around and that age seemed so OLD!  And today, I’ve turned 50 and I still feel young.  If I close my eyes, in my heart of hearts, I feel 25 years old.  Of course, the mirror punctures that fantasy. When I…

Why is it so hard to write?

Writing.  The arcane art.  Just open a vein and write, as the saying goes.  It’s easy, isn’t it? I was chatting with a couple of my playwriting friends and we were complaining how hard it is to write.  If we think of ourselves as writers, why would the thing we do that classifies us as…