Indy Theatre Habit

  If you have been reading my blog all along, you know that for the past six months I have been working on a commission from the Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana.  It is part of their “Sharing Hoosier History through Stories” collaboration. Well, yesterday (Sunday), I premiered it! I learned a [...]

“Of the People: Stories and Images of Abraham Lincoln,” by Hope Baugh (that’s me!), premieres this Sunday, January 18, 2009 from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Indiana History Center (not to be confused with the Indiana State Museum.)  This program is part of the Sharing Hoosier History through Stories collaboration between the Indiana Historical Society and [...]

For most of this last day of 2008 I have been reading a fascinating book from my public library called Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Houghton Mifflin Company 2005.) It is not a self-help book, but it reminds me a little of Thomas Moore’s Care [...]

When President-Elect Obama spoke to the crowd in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday night, he referred to Abraham Lincoln.  Here is the excerpt:  ”Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.  Let us remember that it was [...]

It’s been a while since I mentioned here on my blog that I have been commissioned to create a 90-minute storytelling piece on Abraham Lincoln to help celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2009.  However, last night I turned in the title for it:

Yesterday, as I was getting a long overdue haircut and telling the hairdresser about my latest creative project, I realized that the main reason I have no love life is NOT because a) I am fat, b) I am middle-aged, c) I have fits of shyness sometimes, d) my day job is in a female-dominated [...]