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Mobile post sent by vergil66 using Utterli.  Replies.  mp3 Reading Richard II at the Shakespeare Aloud (sponsored by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival) at the Nashville Public Library (downtown).

The trip to Iowa City, Iowa–I knew–wouldn’t take that long (maybe 5 hours tops), but for some reason I just wasn’t having luck with getting a hotel through Priceline.com. I think my neighbor reflects the attitude that many people have in using a service such as Priceline.com (no, this is not a paid announcement…though the […]

I woke up sort of whiny and slightly damp from the air conditioner. Because of the late night (or early morning) arrival, I had already decided to skip a morning run and do some stuff in the city. So I disrobed and stepped into the shower that didn’t have any shampoo, and turned on the […]

In the three or so months in planning out the details of this summer, I decided to take the first month and tag as many Shakespeare festivals and plays as I could. Then in April, I sat down at the beginning of spring break and built a first calendar and found, no surprise, that the […]

I’ve had sort of a trend-setting edge on my father-in-law since I started dating his daughter 20 or so years ago. A pattern emerged from our relationship. I think I was the first person in Indiana to drive a Ford Festiva (a fact that I am quite proud of…that “little, big car” of a thing). […]

Because the trip to Indianapolis wouldn’t take me much time, I was fairly relaxed about getting on the road. I had been looking forward to this venue as much as Cymbeline and Love’s Labours Lost would be the only performance that I would see in Indiana. And, along with Cymbeline, this was one of the […]

Before we left on this trip, Ken (my father-in-law) offered me his GPS. I declined saying something about “we got our maps already from GoogleMaps” but thanked him for the offer anyway. I love technology, but I hate the GPS. Or, better reframed: I didn’t like what the GPS represented. See, I still like the […]

I got lost in the language right away, the same way I get lost in a play in Stratford. Nothing about the production was distracting and I was smiling and laughing at all the laugh-line parts with the louder lady to my left. In a way, I was relieved. Getting there wasn’t much of an […]