Third Rail Themes

As I come close to departing for Ghana, I am, as I should be, thinking a lot about what I'm doing. Teaching theater, as a Western theat...

Happy New Year! In a week I'm going on hiatus when I go to Ghana, though I'll try to get a few notes in in the meantime. But here...

As we hurtle towards hiatus, eight days from today, I wanted to take a moment to note that my friend is awesome . Read the profile, and you...

Merry belated Christmas! Chappy continuing Chanukkah! Happy continuing holidays! I'm in Miami now, but have some poetry. Linda Gregg ...

I'm going to Miami today to see my entire extended family (and I very nearly mean my *entire* extended family, though not quite). I...

Hmmm. Melissa Etheridge made friends with Rick Warren. Huh. I guess this snap judgement problem is just going to be omnipresent right now....

The last year of my life has gotten me thinking about competence, in particular the relationships between competence and talent. I grew up t...

About a year and a half ago, visiting family, I met a woman around my age who was dating a wealthy man twenty-five years her senior. She lo...

Speaking of the inauguration, she'll be there too. This is the part I like. Elizabeth Alexander Apollo We pull off to a road shack in M...

Rick Warren will offer a prayer at Obama's inauguration. This is not okay . We may have just hit upon the first move by the Obama adm...