Grinder's Grumblings

Picking a season is like playing chess... against an evil master! This post is just a quick reminder that the Grinder 2026 season will drop, as usual, on New Year's Day. I'll be announcing the two shows that we will be doing this summer at the Ennotville Library, and maybe one or two other things that may or may not come along.  Have we got a story for you! Picking the season is something that has always been very important to me. Out of an infinite number of plays and an infinite number of dramatic possibilities I narrow my choices down to just a handful of shows. In this case there are two, but sometimes a season is only one show, or three shows, or three dozen shows. I don't think the actual number of shows is all that important, actually. What matters is why you chose them.  The Assistant Director fell asleep on the couch... And the older I get, the reasons why I chose them become more and more important to me. I find that odd, because I thought as time went on I would ...

Most of the time I devote this space to all things Grinder, but this month I'd like to take a small detour, and talk a little bit about my writing.  Writing is and always has been a primarily creative outlet for me, rather than a source of income. I try to write every day, and I can't go too long without writing, even if I try not to, or even if it's not convenient to do so. I always have a notebook in my pocket, so that I can write whenever I do get the chance. For creative work I compose exclusively by hand, pen to paper, writing in cursive (if you don't know what cursive is, ask your parents). Over the past year or so I've taken some steps to further develop the writing-as-business side of things, as I struggle, however slowly, to take my creative career to a new level.  One of the first things I did was to give in and finally start paying for a website once again. I hadn't paid for web hosting since the old Grinder era crashed back in 2010, but now I am the ...