Building Your Child’s V*cabulary

Posted by dougwood on Oct 24, 2011 in Journal | 7 comments ShareWhen I was a kid, I thought ‘lips’ was a bad word. Until 7th Grade, my hand to God, I thought you had to say ‘mouth.’ By the time I graduated from college though, who cursed more than me? D*** few. Those were the days. In the years after, I worked in the theatre, I worked in restaurants and I might has well have been a f**king sailor for the language I used. I could curse in Spanish...
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The Story of Ferdinand: An Opera-teeny

Posted by dwbf-admin on Jul 12, 2011 in Shows | 0 comments ShareBased on the children’s book by Munroe Leaf; Originally produced at Lifeline Theatre (Chicago); Book by James Sie; Music and Lyrics by Douglas Wood Originally Directed by Frances Limoncelli Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! MUST LISTEN: #1 On the Widow Ortega’s Farm; #4 Smell The Roses; #7 At the Bullfight   At...
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Gay Marriages Rock, or How We Almost Didn’t Get Married

Posted by dougwood on Jun 25, 2011 in Journal | 10 comments Share In the window between when same-sex marriage was legal in CA and when Prop 8 passed, those sunshiny days, James and I got married after 17 years together. How strange it all was, how sudden. We’d been together for nearly a third of our lives but we had only considered that marriage might be in the cards for less than a year. In the 1970′s when I was growing up gay, a dumb...
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The Happy Glamper

Posted by dougwood on Apr 17, 2011 in Journal | 2 comments ShareI have heard tell that most parents love their children. But over the spring break, I took my son camping. In the wilderness. Where there were bugs and animals and nature and such. So I win. With another family with two boys. Game, set, match. But before camping, we spent two days in the wilds of Santa Barbra (as in Streisand). We swam where one needn’t worry about leeches. We ate salads...
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