Oct 19, 2019 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
published on John le Carré’s birthday – October 19, 1931 David John Moore Cornwell began writing novels about espionage and spies when he was working as a full-time intelligence agent for the British foreign service MI6 – a group whose very existence was...
Oct 7, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Horror, Past Notes
“October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars,...
Sep 27, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Rosh Hashanah – Sept 29 thru Oct 1, 2019 published in Twig, Seattle Washington new year. Ned Hayes Rosh Hashanah comes this year on a day of cool wind, a breathtaking portent of winter taking the world, rude lover tossing the sheets away. in autumn the...
Sep 9, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
I Have Been Living by Jane Mead I have been living closer to the ocean than I thought – in a rocky cove thick with seaweed. It pulls me down when I go wading. Sometimes, to get back to land takes everything I have in me. Sometimes, to get back to land is the...
Sep 3, 2019 | On Writing, Past Notes, Theater
The Mueller Report Presented By: Oly Arts Location: Washington Center Main Stage ONE DAY ONLY — FREE A non-partisan event open to all, created as a public service. A complete and full public reading of the redacted version of the Office of the Special Counsel’s...
Aug 30, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Theater
I recently helped to organize a day-long reading of the complete Mueller Report at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. A number of local theatrical artists and local elected public officials participated in the event, and it was a great success. A...
