Calling All Playwrights & Aspiring Playwrights By Mark Boyer I am excited to join the esteemed team of presenters for the 14th annual Lake Chapala Writers Conference on March 6-8, 2019. The focus of this conference is on Storytelling, and I have been invited to present a session on playwriting. Since playwriting is a huge lifelong topic,
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What I Learned From an “Everything” Bagel By Mark Boyer(mboyer888@gmail.com) There are some foods that are in the sacred category. They can only be purchased at certain places where they have attained a level of perfection. If you move away, you then spend your life on regular pilgrimages to those places that inspire nirvana.
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2017 Earth Report By Mark Boyer The summer of 2017 has been a particularly challenging time. There have been an unusual number of major natural disasters around the world, including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires. There are many who deny the interrelationship of humans and climate, and there will undoubtedly be even greater disasters
The Battle Of Charlottesville By Mark Boyer They tried to manipulate their message and divert our attention to others. They said Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, Native Americans, and LGBTQs were bad. They said our heroes weren’t really heroes. They said the poor and the helpless were cheaters and a burden. They said THEIR religion was
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IMPROVING U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS: What Are the Questions? By Mark Boyer I have been corresponding with a North America publication that requested ideas for an article on ways for improving U.S.-Mexico relations. Rather than provide solutions or pathways, I submitted questions. I think we have sometimes become too quick to jump to answers, and are not
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12 Reflections on This Past Year of U.S. Politics By Mark Boyer These are a few of my personal ah-hahs from this past year of politics: 1) I have never liked politics, but it is nearly impossible to escape… if we care and want to be part of the solution and not part of
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Speeding Past Shangri-La By Mark Boyer We all have our stories of regret, and this is one of my deepest regrets that has changed the way I think and the choices I now make. One summer my friend Ken Schunk and I travelled to a remote area of China near the Tibet border in
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The Largest Native American Protest Is Happening Now—and Why It Matters By Mark Boyer We live in times when there is often preference for what is new over what is old. Things are consumed or thrown away, so that they can be replaced by something shiny, new, and maybe a bit faster. This
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Groundhog Day By Mark Boyer Do you ever feel like you are in an endless loop on Groundhog Day? Sometimes I think it is just here, but I don’t think so. Same jokes, stories, dreams. Moments when you realize your jokes, stories, and dreams belong to someone else. Potluck. Forced laughter. We’ll have to
Enough By Mark Boyer “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” – Lao Tzu Shark Tank is a reality TV show where people pitch their business ideas to an investor panel, and some proposals get funded and others don’t. I was particularly intrigued by a recent show where farmer Johnny
