JULIE CHIMES BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP INTERVIEW


“Thy priests go forth at dawn; they wash their hearts with laughter.” I have always loved this saying from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – how delicious it sounds to wash one’s heart with laughter. When I was a very small child I would sit in the wings of…
I’ve recently spent a few days in the place of my birth and that of a far more famous scribe, the prolific and mysterious Willelmus Shackspere. Having had an up-bringing and education of fforce-ffed Elizabethan melodrama, I never truly appreciated the genius of the man who recently turned 450 years…