April 9, 2018 You are never so much an individual as you are a community.  That's a line of dialog from my current play.  I wrote it with an intellectual sense of how it applies to the community I am writing about.

April 4, 2018 A storyteller I once interviewed on the island of Ujae said, "Listen to the other side of the story." Too often I (we?) enter a story (our own story?) with preconceived expectations and miss deeper or

March 29, 2018 "Those civilized might take a lesson from the humanity of these people to the shipwrecked." James F. O'Connell, 1836 Although I have not suffered a shipwreck, I do feel a bit adrift here in Pohnpei. I made