What is fame to you?
How would you know if you were famous?
What would that do for you personally, if you were famous? What would it represent? Mean?
How big an area would you have to be famous in to be satisfied?
Does the itch to be famous ever stop, have boundaries, or just keep going on and […]

Why do we scratch our heads when we can’t figure something out?
Are we simply buying time?
Signalling that we are clueless?
Or, do we think we’ll shake our brains a bit,
and the information we are looking for will fall out?

My sweetheart Daniel Holland in Northern California had a wonderful dream one night and was fortunate enough to remember it. This is an archtypal dream every performer, artist, and writer must know and face before putting work out in the world. –JRG
In the dream I’m in the lion’s den with two lions. They are ferocious: […]

I’ve arrived in the Midwest now and am starting the work of making a new home for myself in St. Louis. My brother Gary Thompson flew out to visit me, fish with Daniel, and escort me back. We slept last night in the house we grew up in, where my father grew up, where he […]

The stars came out full force Sunday night to celebrate a decade of Stars of Lake County. Amid a packed house of several hundreds, we were there, up front, in spitting distance of the stage. Ours was the Arts Table.
To celebrate my sweetheart’s Daniel Holland’s Art Star of Lake County nomination we gathered together […]

“When you see the world on tilt rather than straight on, then you see the humor in the situation.” –Daniel Holland
For years Daniel Holland, my sweetheart, dreamed of an old-fashioned comedy variety review show for Lake County, here in Northern California. My slogan is, “If you can dream, you can do.”
In 2004, then, we did. […]