Your Email Is Doing This Better Than You Are
by Steve Harper I lived in New York on 9/11. It’s a long story and I won’t go into here, but essentially I was heading downtown on a crowded bus (to work) when the second tower fell. It took me 6 hours to get back uptown to my apartment when I realized my workplace was closed. Buses were packed. Subways weren’t running. Pay phones were out of commission: lines were busy or phones were broken. I didn’t have a cell at the time. What...
Four Steps to Surviving the Heart-Ache
by Steve Harper As the Rolling Stones said: “You can’t always get what you want.” That’s what I’ve been negotiating in my creative life these days. After months of continuing my search for TV writing work, I’ve not yet gotten a job. I’m still in the game, no question, but it’s been frustrating and difficult. And it’s gotten me thinking about the challenge (familiar for all creative folks) of being far from the opportunities we covet....
How To Save Your Creative Life
by Steve Harper A funny thing happened to me on the way home from an event in downtown L.A. I was performing in a benefit for Playwrights Arena, a theatre company – in an ensemble number from a show written by a friend of mine. Driving downtown can be tricky in Los Angeles, with commuter traffic and parking restrictions, and I ended up making a quick decision to park in a lot a few blocks from the Los Angeles Theatre Center,...
Confessions of a Porn Zombie
by Kevin Behan “Poooooooooorrrrrrn . . . . . Pooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnn ….. Porrrnnnnnnnn ….” . . . I grunted as my lifeless corpse limped closer to what it needed most. Shuffling, slow, and primal I fixed my gaze on the “food” glowing off my computer screen, . . . calling me . . . I called back, “poooorrrrrrrnnnn.” Now sweating, my heart beating faster then it did all day all day, I knew relief was coming, that I would feel again....
Dads Alone: Men choosing to raise children without a partner
by Ravenspen We have all heard of ‘single moms’, some of them by choice, others having to raise children without the benefit of a partner. But a growing phenomenon in the world is men, straight and gay, who are choosing to create families for themselves despite being single. Jennifer Ludden, in a report broadcast on National Public Radio, describes this new development. Ludden’s story tells of the experience of B.J....
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