317 stories by "Don Hall"
Admit it.You already flaked on your resolutions, didn't you?You were well intentioned in making your resolves -"I will lose ten pounds.""I will quit smoking.""I will spend more time with my …
...that the act of making a leap of faith - in yourself, in someone else, in the concepts of luck or divine providence - doesn't in and of itself earn you any sort of congratulatory backslap…
Samuel French ePlays are here.Now you can instantly download and read many of the acting editions in our catalogue through your eReader or mobile device. Are you as excited as we are?The iBo…
The three-year old child figures out early on that, if he wants something - a juice, a toy, some attention - that all he needs to do is cry or throw a tantrum and most times, in an effort to…
2011 in RetrospectIn the Ervin Drake song, made famous by the one and only Frank Sinatra, pretty much anything beyond 35 was considered "...the autumn of the year..." but this is the day and…
One of the strange but true controversies in the theater world that surfaced in 2011 was the issue of smartphones in the dedicated, austere performance halls of the Lady Theater. It is…
...that, at the end of 2011, it pays to recognize both the truly excellent things (the end of the Iraq War) and the truly ugly things (the execution of an innocent man in Georgia) to find a …
"You can take the boy out of Kansas but you can't take the Kansas out of the boy."In the ongoing debate about which determines the essential Who, while Nature is powerful - the ethnicity of …
It's About Time...A man from Birmingham, Alabama is filing a lawsuit in the Jefferson County Circuit Court to keep Barack Hussein Obama off of the Alabama ballot, citing problems with Obama'…
We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam? The first thing …
...that, whatever you think of the Obama Administration and myriad compromises made with a political party hellbent on its demise, only a complete and utter ideologue with no regard for a se…
"I am not a poor black kid. I am a middle aged white guy who comes from a middle class white background. So life was easier for me. But that doesn't mean that the prospects…
REASONS # 9, 17, 44, and 65As weary of the non-stop bloviating by those on the Extreme Right who hate our President with a fervor usually reserved for despots and a neighbor who cut a tree d…
Human beings are a simpleminded lot. In order to make the world a bit more comprehensible, we tend to take HUGE, COMPLEX issues and simplify them in ways that "boil it all down" a…
I performed "Transmorphing" at This Much is True this week. It was packed out and the stories were just all very good. Great evening.Someone asked me why I did this piece again (…
A Thought for Those Losing Some Weight...It never stops. It is, as they say, a Change in Lifestyle. It is a reframing of the role of food in your life and the maintenance of your…
I'm at the YMCA. I have a membership so I can use the gym.On weekends, at the Irving Park Y, there are frequently a lot of older guys (at this point in my life, an older guy is defined…
...that the term "redistribution of wealth" was invented by the wealthy and thus is immediately suspect....that anyone in public office that is vehemently against an agency called the "Consu…
I just read about a cat on a college campus with a gun robbing people of their iPhones. We know from the story that it is exclusively iPhones because two Blackberry users were held up,…
REASON #42...because people in power can do things like this...Although North Carolina officially apologized in 2002 and legislators have pressed to compensate victims before, a task force a…
That Shit Is Horror Movie Scary"I'm getting the belt!"I was spanked as a child. In school, I was paddled.In truth, I almost always deserved it. Also, in truth, it usually didn't hurt that …
I'm a Liberal.I'm not a Progressive. I'm not a Left Wing Activist. I'm not a Hippie.There isn't anything wrong with being a Liberal. I am pro-choice across the board, believe tha…
Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.****Obama in KansasI've read some commentary about the President's speech that amounts to "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" i…
