Each night I stand backstage pacing back and forth, running a small ritual that has become important to me as a preparation for a coming night of emotional journeying. The role of Eric Weiss in Brooklyn Boy is a challenging one, one that I relate to all too well. And then, inevitably, my friend Carla …
The Camera Comes Out
There is such joy in wandering around with my camera. Somehow it inspires...florals today, maybe portraits soon... Enjoy...
Impressions on a Good Friday
Fat Tuesday and Good Friday are both preludes. You'd think I must have chosen to give up blogging for Lent. Not one entry after Fat Tuesday. Nothing of the glorious Ash Wednesday experience, that annual marker of remembering that death is coming for all of us, that we are made of ashes and dust and …
Impressions on a Fat Tuesday
Roy Orbison sings "Pretty Woman" as the man by the window, white earplugs delivering his preferred white noise, ruffles the paper, sets it down, and stands up to leave, almost as if he can feel me observing, writing about him. A buddy and he walk out the door, into the rain, calling back over their …
The Last Station
What is love? It's an appropriate question to encounter on the day before Valentine's Day, and Saturday afternoon, the question appeared with force in Michael Hoffman's film, The Last Station, starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, and Paul Giamatti. (Spoilers ahead.) The Last Station chronicles the last tumultuous days of the relationship between …
JEFF BERRYMAN 