Moving Furniture

I wrote about some of the seemingly most mundane things that can happily occupy a summer (or other time of year) for Brain Child’s blog. And then, there was a shelf that needed to be moved to our friends’ house just across the way. I handed the task to my...

Take Me Out to the Storm Scene

“Blow winds, and crack your cheeks!” shouts King Lear in Act 3 Scene 1 as he rages in the tragedy’s climactic storm. But on the night I saw the play last week, at the New York Public Theater’s free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park, that line...