Who doesn’t love peaches? Well, there may be a few hardened souls that do not like to sink their teeth into a juicy, ripe, succulent, fuzzy, delectable sphere of delight, but I don’t know any in Paonia, Colorado. Here in the North Fork Valley, the fruit orchards are dripping with cherries, apricots, pears, peaches, and apples. These are…
It was one year ago today when I found out that I had to move from my home in the mountains west of Boulder, the home that I had built and birthed in for 36 years. At the time, it was devastating and seemed beyond my capability to pack up, release, and move on. I…
What a time it has been since I learned in May that I had to move from the home that I built over 36 years in the foothills of Boulder. I had to be out by August 1st and had no idea where to go. After searching around the Boulder area for an appropriate space,…
This has been a transformitavely difficult two weeks for me, thus a delayed writing of the blog. Since the writing schedule for Voyage Media, that I am on with Surya (my daughter), is so consuming, I’ll only try to give you a brief snapshot of what is entailed. We are writing an outline of the…
Hello all of you out there in MicroCosmic Cartoon land. Have you wondered why I call it The MicroCosmic Cartoon Show? It is really very simple and enormously complex at the same time. We first have to look at what this “reality” is that we are living in. We inhabit a teeny, tiny corner…
Writing and writing; writing about this and that; writing stuff that matters and stuff I just have to get done. I am finding that just the action of writing has a therapeutic effect for me. I focus on what I am saying and how I am saying it. I really like to find the rhythms…
I have been standing on a ledge for quite a while, not too high, but higher than I’ve ever stood before. Besides all the rewrites, I have been learning about the production end of the film industry. How incredibly complicated it is. So, one aspect is the need to organize the screenplay into a form…
Here I am, writing a script that includes different diverse ethnic characters in the story. They are not caricatures or prototypes of any particular culture. All the characters are merely representative of people anywhere in America. Hence, we have them as follows: Josh…Eastern Mediterranean decent Joe…Caucasian Terra…Latina Angie…Asian Jack…African American So, in writing their descriptions,…
Whew! What a whirlwind weekend it has been at the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF). There were 25,000 attendees over the four days of the festival. There were four venues showing films back to back throughout the days and evenings. There were the parties and the events. There was a whole lot of camaraderie and…
It seems that life is a waiting game. What are we waiting for? Is it the elusive pie-in-the-sky dream to actualize or is it just the time it takes to get from point A to point B? How do we fill in the time between A (Birth) to Z (Death)? How do we set goals?…