My first novel Point of Venus is now up for sale on Lulu.com (paperback) and Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc. in both paperback and E-book. I wrote it because I had the most intense dream of my life on February…
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Sometimes my life feels like a ball of yarn with both ends tucked in the inside and I have to pull at loops until the whole thing unravels. Once and everything. Sometimes there are more than two ends that attract…
In my acting class I am being asked to pick a scene that’s reflective of my ‘type’ which is harder than it seems. I need to know my type so I don’t try for roles that seek ‘a typical…
Welcome to the first blog of www.mrleebarton.com. My new WEB site is operational and everyone who followed my other one should be transferred to this. This is my hope and dream. Every night now life gets more uncertain in…
Two weeks ago at about 4am I heard gunshots outside my street level window. I’ve been toying with the idea of moving ad this shreds any doubt of it. Hearing gunshots is traumatic. It’s not like the movies. Every apartment…
I’m a nostalgic; I love to watch old TV shows, old commercials, old movies, old Communist scare public service announcements, etc. one show I enjoy is Dick Cavett’s old interview show. The guests would be there would be there for…
Today is my second birthday, the date I was adopted and brought home by my parents from wherever I was being stored in the meantime. I am grateful, it is like being born again before you’re old enough to…
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, when Commander Bowman returns to Discovery in one of the space pods after retrieving the dead body of Commander Poole, HAL refuses to open the pod bay doors, plum drowned in madness and conflict. Commander Bowman…
I thank those who came to my show in sub arctic armpit cold weather last week and those who flitted by in spirit, including Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Edith Grovella, who died in a 1 BR on the lower east…
Sometimes characters I create feel more like me than I do. Pure distilled parts of myself that don’t get ovations in the day to day world filled with the dents of my mind. One of my favorites is Charley…