Performance Poetry@Playgroup Festival

I gave a performance Saturday night at the Playgroup Festival as part of the Forest of Thoughts Bedtime Stories and Poems.  I don't know what ever possessed me to accept a slot at 12:30 AM, immediately following a burlesque act, but there you go. Sometimes we make choices that don't support our higher goals, perhaps... Continue Reading →

Budapest Autumn Festival: A Musical Journey

This piece ran in the Budapest Times in October 2004.  Images via Zemanta. Budapest (Őszi) Autumn Festival A Musical Journey by Alison Boston October can be bleak.  The leaves and temperatures fall, and the days get shorter.  But if you live in Budapest and you feel like hibernating, forget it.  The Őszi Festival starts on... Continue Reading →

Flash Fiction Friday: An Accidental Opportunity

Written at Under the Bridge writing workshop. We were given an exercise to write a couple of sentences setting the scene, then we passed our sentences to the next person and had about 5 minutes to write the story based on what the other person had written.  I got: "A man on a country walk... Continue Reading →

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