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When I was 57, I asked my doctor to schedule a colonoscopy for me. My first. I’m glad I did. The specialist found three polyps. He clipped two out but couldn’t get the third. “It’s in a fold and kept slipping away,” he said. “But I got a piece of it. We’ll send it to [...]

I loved doing the show on Friday night. I was last on the program of eight tellers, so I had a lot of time in the back of the theater to run my story. I ran it so much I got tired of it. That was a good sign. It meant I had absolutely no [...]

We had our fourth and final rehearsal Wednesday night.  A big lesson for me this week was “practice what you preach.” I’m real clear, adamant, actually, about the place of a core message/theme in stories (“yes” if it’s in a talk or sermon, “no” if it’s a performance piece. Why? Let art stand on its [...]

This week I decided to write out the story, to script it and memorize it. I’m glad I did. I have a lot more control over the material. I’m also less likely to leave segments out or bring in segments that I think of in the moment that take the story off into the bushes [...]