Diary of an Autodidact

Right before California shut down most gatherings to shelter-in-place for Covid-19, we were able to attend CSUB’s production of Tommy . My...

Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation under the new media And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The sublimi...

The Turn of the Screw was one of the first tales by Henry James I read. Unlike Daisy Miller (which I found to be subpar, and which turne...

I was homeschooled from 2nd grade on, but for my last three years, I used video courses for my subjects. Although the coursework had some ...

I read quite a few Roald Dahl books when I was a kid. However, for some reason, I never did read Matilda . My memory of 35 years ago isn’t...

My wife, who has an astounding number of Broadway songs memorized, saw that local theater Stars was doing this musical, and determined th...

She Kills Monsters is another of the offbeat productions that local theater, The Empty Space , puts on as part of its season. I was not fa...