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My Third Annual Sherri’s On-Line Christmas Book Fair

Originally posted on rithebard:
Happy Holidays! Welcome to  my Third on-line Christmas Day Blog Book Fair. We have a great mix of books here. All kinds, for all tastes. So please browse and choose a wonderful book to keep you entertained! ? ? ? The books for the raffle for this years book fair are…

My Third Annual Sherri’s On-Line Christmas Book Fair | rithebard

My Third Annual Sherri’s On-Line Christmas Book Fair | rithebard.

Promotions, new plays, and acting challenges

I know I’ve been promising more and more blogs here on my blog but as the title suggests, I’ve been busy. So what have I been busy with. New plays for starters, I just finished a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and have sent it off to a potential theatre out here for their […]

‘Are you a feminist?’ — the question more and more female celebrities are asked – The Washington Post

True story, once upon a time in a land far far away (in reality about 20 years ago in a town about 100 miles away), I rejected the idea of feminism. Not because I didn’t believe in equal rights, but because I believed this notion that feminist = man hating woman. I thought, wrongly, that […]

The Life of a busy writer

I know I haven’t updated much lately and I’m hoping to change that and start updating on a regular basis, but i say that everytime I go through one of these stretches of little to no posting. This summer was a busy theater summer for me. I performed in Hays Community Theatre’s production as “Into […]

A Two Year retrospective: In Shadow’s Shadow: Neil Gaiman, 9/11, and me

Repost of my September 11 memorial blog from two years ago. How neil Gaiman and American Gods influenced and changed my perspective.

I have No Mouth and I Must Scream – A playwright’s response to #Ferguson

One of my favorite writers is the incomparable Harlan Ellison. Harlan once wrote a short story about a fickle “god” (in reality a computer) who manipulated and changed and warped a group of people for it’s own amusement. In the end there was one man who had no mouth and had to scream. Can you […]

Wrestling With the Wrath of Writer’s Block | Heather Hummel

I got the chance to share my thoughts on how I overcome writer’s block with Heather Hummel, a blogger at The Huffington Post. I encourage you to give it a read. You might have thought that writer’s block got ahold of me, I’ve been silent for awhile over here on my blog, but the truth […]

Autism and the Theatre

If you didn’t know, April is Autism Awareness Month. Today (April 2nd), people were encouraged to wear blue to show support for autism awareness. Over the next month, I will be highlighting autism on my blog and how the arts can affect and help autistic individuals (specifically autistic students.) Autism affects one in 88 children […]

Fergus mac Leti and What The Leprechaun Said

In honor of St Patrick’s Day, I’m reposting my 10-min play “What the Leprechaun Said” WHAT THE LEPRECHAUN SAID At rise, the set is dressed as the Irish seashore, up stage left (USL) should have a large boulder large enough for two men to lay against. Down stage right (DSR) should have a small boulder. […]