by Carole Duff | May 22, 2017 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
So. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Two plays within a back-to-the-future play at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton. Seat B3. In the opening scene, the protagonist, university assistant professor Constance Ledbelly, is writing her...
by Carole Duff | May 8, 2017 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Yesterday morning dawned overcast and chilly. While sipping coffee, I checked my newsfeed on Facebook. A dear friend had commented on a post from the daughter of a former neighbor of ours. The post began, “It is with heavy heart that I pay tribute to my dad, who...
by Carole Duff | May 1, 2017 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
May Day. Not the parade of workers and weapons in Communist countries. Not the pre-Christian pagan fertility festival. Today is May Day, the secular celebration of spring. I remember pictures in old high school and college yearbooks of girls dancing around a maypole,...
by Carole Duff | Apr 24, 2017 | Local or Human Interest, Nature |
It was 3:14 on Thursday afternoon and spoiling for a thunderstorm. I parked the truck at the top of the driveway outside our garage. There were groceries to unload and 30-pound bags dog food. Earlier that afternoon, this old gumshoe had stopped at PetSmart then...
by Carole Duff | Mar 20, 2017 | Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
“This is not a true story,” playwright Emma Whipday wrote in the program notes. “The Judith Shakespeare you’re about to see did not exist. Shakespeare did have a sister, called Joan; she married a hatter, and lived out her life in Stratford-upon-Avon. To our...
by Carole Duff | Feb 27, 2017 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Did you ever play this game in Scouts? Everyone lines up shoulder-to-shoulder with the troop leader at the left end of the line. The leader says, “I saw a bear,” and the scouts ask, “Where?” Then the leader makes a big gesture, pointing left arm far to the right, and...
