November 7, 2025 Dear Drama Observers, It’s been quite a while since you’ve heard from me. In case you’ve forgotten (which is probably the case given that it’s been so long), you received a weekly email from me for several years entitled “The Drama Review.” I took a break in late 2022 to focus instead […]
Dear Drama Observers, Remember me? It’s been a while since I’ve posted an installment of The Drama Review. What with everything I’ve had going on in the last several months, I’ve busier than a mosquito in a nudist colony. Back in December of 2017, I referred to It’s a Wonderful Life, one of my all-time […]
Dear Drama Observers, If you’ve not noticed, my Drama Reviews are few and far between these days since I’m channeling my energies into a new writing project which is coming along, by the way. In the letter below, which was posted a few years back, I made this statement, “Crowd power is a big topic […]
Dear Drama Observers, I’ve not been posting Drama Review installments with any regularity in recent months due to the amount of time I’m devoting to a new writing project which, I’m glad to say, is coming along. I first wrote the piece below five years ago and often post it on or around July 4th. […]
Dear Drama Observers, The piece I wrote last month entitled “Are We Headed for a National Divorce?” was published this week by Current which is “An online journal of commentary and opinion that provides daily reflection on contemporary culture, politics, and ideas.” It’s a little shorter and lightly edited and they entitled it “Running from […]
Dear Drama Observers, I’ve cut back on the frequency of Drama Review posts—from weekly to monthly—due to my investment of time in writing another book which will focus on the subject of collective deception. Here are some brief excerpts: *** Collective deception can happen to any people at any time in any land. It’s happened […]
Dear Drama Observers, Here’s something from a holiday season past: *** I’ve mentioned before—many times, actually—that dramas are fun to watch, but miserable when you’re in them. This time of year, my wife and I love to watch A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. As you’re probably aware, there are numerous cinematic renditions, but my […]
Dear Drama Observers, I recently wrote an article that was published in Current which is “an online journal of commentary and opinion that provides daily reflection on contemporary culture, politics, and ideas.” It’s called “Listening in Loud Times.” You can read it here:
Dear Drama Observers, I was talking to someone recently about the mind-bending experience of being in a relationship with someone who is personality disordered or what I often refer to in this letter as a drama person. When I traveled and presented live seminars to mental health professionals (back when we did such things), I […]
Dear Drama Observers, The writing project in which I’m currently involved will address the subject of collective deception. Just as individual manipulators can pull the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting targets, groups of people are sometimes swept up in systems of altered reality. I set the book up this way: We’ve all been fooled […]