The format for our next salon at the Microscopic Theater will be an interesting departure from what we've done heretofore. We'll start at 7:00 p.m. -- nothing unusual there -- on Saturday, April 28. And we'll have wine and cheese etc. very much like we've had before. But placed within the Microscopic Theater will be several pieces of sculpture by J P Barreda, and viewing will be free-form and at will, with J P present to chat informally with all comers about his work. So

Cross Timbers, Texas 1921 The man she saw walking along the road was wearing a straw hat. Ina had been sixteen for more than half a year. Cold wind on her birthday seemed never to have stopped but just warmed and warmed until now it was hot, same wind, just hot. The bluebonnets were long gone to seed -- seed that might lie dormant for a decade or more before a winter of perfect moisture brought another bluebonnet April to transform Cross Timbers. A mud hole, the town was call

You're a young professional woman waiting for your train in an almost abandoned train station, when you're approached by a stranger who needs his traveler's check cashed. Thus begins Stuart Warmflash's charming and poignant one-acter "Tyler's Theory of Love." Our reading of the play was a sit-down, quickly rehearsed presentation, yet the play's emotional dynamic and the playwright's sharp storytelling shined right out! Stuart led a lively discussion immediately after the r