![]() Over the years I have written, produced, and performed in many productions. I came to audiobooks from radio drama (both for broadcast and online) and before that, the stage. How on earth did you get into narrating audiobooks? While raising a family here, I have continued to teach everything from British Literature to Physics, as well as write, produce, perform, and even develop an occasional bit of geeky software when I can find the time. After spending time as an accent coach, and a few years as a more traditional educator, i left the city for western Massachusetts. ![]() Murray Abraham, Alan Ginsberg, and Frank McCourt. I’ve studied acting and writing with people including F. In addition to acting, i have also written, produced, designed, and directed both staged plays and internet radio dramas. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and began my professional life on New York’s Theatre Row. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From Ivan to Peter, Catherine to Nicholas, Russia’s rulers have reforged these myths to suit their own purposes, sometimes as a defensive standard for the people to rally round, sometimes as a badge of celestial honour to cement Moscow’s place as the saviour of the west. Yet according to President Putin, unveiling a monstrous statue to him in 2016, he “gathered and defended Russia’s lands… by founding a strong, united and centralised state”.Īs Orlando Figes’s new history methodically lays bare, this is both myth-making of the first order and of profound importance to understanding Russia today. ![]() ![]() In truth, Vladimir (or Volodymyr to the Ukrainians) is a classic founding figure, now a saint, about whom almost nothing is known. For Russia, it has long been Grand Prince Vladimir, who had 800 concubines and wives before choosing Christ over Muhammad at the end of the first millennium for the very Russian reason that Islam did not permit alcohol. Think Alfred and the cakes or Robert the Bruce and his study of spiders. E very nation has its founding myths and narratives, usually starring historical figures we know almost nothing about absurd stories even to the schoolchildren to whom they are usually peddled. ![]() ![]() I need to keep flexing my writing muscles since I write on a daily basis for my day job.As the blog tagline suggests, it’s “a blog for millennials who should probably get their shit together but don’t really want to.” The purpose of this new blog is mixed: My new blog is called Reluctant Adulting and is currently hosted on Wix. But the good news is that I’m coming back! Just with a slightly different direction. I made some of the best damn friends I’ve ever had and really got to feel a part of something for a while.Īnd then I got a new day job and life got crazy, and… you know how it is. This book/fandom blog was an AWESOME leap into blogging for me. ![]() ![]() I actually wanted to pop in to let any new visitors know that I’m starting a new blog & won’t be posting here anymore after today. ![]() Well, it’s been nearly 2 years since I stopped by to visit you guys! What the hell, Christa? ![]() ![]() "The preparatory poem is biographical, and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point when he was emboldened to hope that his faculties were sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he had proposed to himself and the two works have the same kind of relation to each other, if he may so express himself, as the Ante-chapel has to the body of a Gothic Church. "That work, addressed to a dear friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and genius, and to whom the author's intellect is deeply indebted, has been long finished and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled the 'Recluse ' as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. ![]() |