PinnedDouglas HarperRosemary and TimeRosemary is my book club friend. She and I read Charles Lamb’s essays recently and had a grand time.Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
PinnedDouglas HarperGhost HousesA low-roofed brick box painted gray, five rooms at most: a wallflower of a house, trying to not be seen.Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperOctober SonataOctober is intermission. Scenery shifts outdoors, the light alters. One day the leaves start to turn; the next, the pianos disappear.Dec 16, 2022Dec 16, 2022
Douglas Harper‘Our Town’“Our Town” is simple in staging and language. That, and the youth of the main characters, might be why high schools love to stage it.Jun 16, 2022Jun 16, 2022
Douglas HarperHome FrontThe internet threw my eyes on a photograph in the background of an advertisement, and as it passed my sight I felt a chest-clench and a…Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperArtist RisingStreetcars rolled below his windows on King Street in the summer of 1912, and Charles Demuth was busy.Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperCrossing LinesMy 14-year-old daughter is a figure skater. She also grew up reading old newspaper cartoons: “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Peanuts” (we don’t have…Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperActor in ChiefOn Feb. 22, his birthday, we honor a great American artist. You don’t think of George Washington as an artist? His art was theater. His…Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperGod’s WordI say this as a secular person: Read the Bible. It will make you a better writer. The more Bible prose is in you, the less likely you will…Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022
Douglas HarperTelevisionI hid the truth when my bosses allowed me to write about entertainment and the arts. So here it is.Jun 15, 2022Jun 15, 2022