A short film conceptualized for a trail running film festival. ------- SCENE 1 [Coventry Woods Chestnut Hill Trail] OPENS ON: steadily paced moving shot headed down a beautiful flat trail spotted with various roots and rocks. Flanked by budding trees all around the scene is green, with patches of clear blue sky showing through the … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE
CARS
Someone smart but sexist once said, “if it has tits or tires, it’ll keep you broke." What can you say about someone that has had so many cars and has so many car stories? Remembering them all sparks the hope… if you could get the car back, you could get the time back and the … Continue reading CARS
AN ANALOG STORY
In the late-Nineteen Eighties I was an aging kid working a colorful but caustic job on the seedy side of town. Specifically, I was a graphic artist in a busy studio that supplied signs for most of the independently owned grocery store chains in the Philadelphia region. We’d hand paint Flank Steak 99¢ / LB. … Continue reading AN ANALOG STORY
The Year of Living Reasonably
There are 54 cards in a deck when you count the jokers but that's not answer to life, the universe and everything.
To my daughter as she leaves…
Words to my daughter as she grows and goes...
Filled with Inspiration
When I wanted to be Tom Waits.
Early expository discovered…
In the early 90s I wrote for and edited several lifestyle and business publications. I learned a lot in the busy, character-filled newsrooms of the suburban weeklies, like how to tell people what to do in prose…
Introducing The Artist
The largest live crowd I ever spoke in front of was nearly 40,000, on August 16, 2011 and I had two goals: Be brief and be powerful.
DISCOVER GOD
Both men, looking out of their respective windows, smiling at their good fortune think to themselves simultaneously– anti-intellectualism is killing this world and their smiles fade.
UNSPOKEN SPEECH
On April 10, 2018 I planned a surprise party for our 25th wedding anniversary but a blizzard changed our plans and we headed south. Had it happened, I had a cake with our picture on it, a killer party band and a speech to deliver to the bride. This is that speech. . . . … Continue reading UNSPOKEN SPEECH
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