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First, let me say a quick thank you to my friend Sam B. for a comment on my Facebook page, on which he responded to my blog entry “Losing My Religion.” He said in part, “[T]heatre is as much for the audience as it is for me. I just tell myself that when it doesn’t…

Barack Obama is the worst president in American history. Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win. Barack Obama is a socialist. Those first two statements, and to some degree the third, are matters of opinion. We can have a debate about them, but neither of us can really say with a hundred percent certainty that…

I’ve completed my move to Olympia from Bremerton, seventy minutes away. Okay, so actually I’m in Tumwater, but that’s just a less bohemian neighborhood of Oly so close it shares the same zip code. I’m five minutes from downtown, less than ten from my girlfriend. Huzzah! And it’s weird. I’m not used to being minutes…

A few years ago, I endeared myself to yet another theatre troupe thusly: I was hired as a counselor for a children’s drama camp, the product of which was to be a musical comedy set in a large and foreboding country house. This camp was overseen, and the play in question directed, by a woman…

Dear Amanda, You said you wanted a love letter for Valentine’s Day this year, and I’m happy to oblige. You may not have wanted my devotion aired in public, but as you know all too well, I never do anything by halves. I’ve been reluctant to use your name here (though I probably have in…

The King James Bible tells us, “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld (Heb. 11:1).” For over half my life now, I’ve had a problem with that definition. How do ‘realities demonstrate themselves evidently’ without being ‘beheld?’ In other words, what’s the difference between faith…

Yes, I know there was no “year zero.” I know that means the decade can’t really end until New Year’s Eve 2010. But just as The Empire Strikes Back is obviously an ’80s movie (21 May 1980) and Goodfellas belongs to the ’90s (18 September 1990), so the pop culture of a mere season away…