Okay, so I haven't been blogging. No explanations other than super busy. Moving forward... In the past couple of weeks, I've seen several films that I think give us a pretty good look at the postmodern sensibility in ways that matter. Probably the most haunting and memorable is the Cohen brothers' "No Country for Old …
Twenty Years
Twenty years ago today, my father died. Jimmy Joe Berryman died of leukemia on July 23rd, 1988, one month before my first child was born. Amy will be twenty on August 26th. This will not be a long remembrance, but I should at least say that Dad has traveled with me a lot over the …
Sensations, Events
Logging back through the past week or so: a friend of mine came into my office yesterday celebrating a one-year anniversary free from crack-cocaine. Needless to say, hugs and laughs all around. On Sunday at the church picnic, I leapt into a sack race and allowed my competitive streak to push me beyond common sense …
Richness
Finally, summer comes to Seattle. This morning is clear sky, cool breeze perfect. I woke not to an alarm, but because my eyes opened. I dreamed of wandering old streets in a town that was my hometown, but that wasn't anywhere I'd lived before. I caught a bus, and when I got off, I'd left …
On Directing
Tomorrow I head to Chicago to teach some theatre classes at the Willow Creek Arts Conference. The one I've been working on this morning relates to directing, and I am always surprised at the stirrings that happen in me as I consider this kind of work. I am reminded again of how much I love …
JEFF BERRYMAN 