“We stood there at the graves of our ancestors; these people who died 120 years ago. What is there to say, after all, about people we’ve never met? And yet…we are them. They came from County Cork and County Clare, which already tells you something: two Irish traditions, two counties, brought together in the diaspora that flung people from the old world through Erie and Iowa and the Dakotas, scattering them like seed. They stopped here, in Perkins County, in a place called Seim. Down the hill from where we stood, the reservoir was calm and silver in the afternoon light. Seim is somewhere underneath it. That’s the kind of ending a place can have in the American West.”
BEBO ON THE BEAT My mother has been gone for a year. I’ve been traveling on the road, wandering, working,
This is the eulogy I read at my mother Betty Bob Buckley’s memorial service, on her 100th birthday, November 1,
It’s been five years today since I lost my husband Davyd Whaley. I’ve heard it said that it takes half
June 13, 2010 I’m frequently asked for suggestions of books about directing–by students, and others who want to direct. Here
January 30, 2011 A friend used to say to me–free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it, which
November 15, 2009 Hitchcock’s films have been fundamental touchstones for my creative development–particularly the way in which he uses his
“Indeed her effect on him was electric—thrilling—arousing in him a curiously stinging sense of what it was to want and
“Okay… let me say this…if I lost my wife and the next day a little bird landed on my window
The Davyd Whaley Foundation launched a year ago on July 9, 2016. I’m very proud of the work we’ve accomplished
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