Each day brings old memories as if they had just happened, clear pictures arriving in full blast, a reminder of another life and today, a moment of remembering delicacies we haven’t eaten in what seems like forever. The only father-in-law I ever knew decided, as his new daughter was arriving at their summer house for […]
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The British Government announced today that they were withdrawing funding from Voluntary Service Overseas, which was a model the American Peace Corps was based on. The Boris Johnson government doesn’t want to extend funding to other countries. Those countries were once under British rule. VSO as it was known colloquially was the opportunity for me
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Today is the first time back to The Broad Stage since I left last summer. I got an email from one of my programming staff still at the Broad. ‘You can’t miss HOME’ he wrote. ‘Not after everything you went through to bring it’. John and I had seen this piece performed at the Edinburgh
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Los Angeles, California, 1986 It makes me grin as I think about those elegant if sometimes rowdy dinners in Sydney and how much more relaxed and perhaps quiet are the dinners we give in our condo apartment in Venice, California. After I returned from Australia it was hard to find a job in Hollywood again.
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