Stephen Rivele's blog

 Do not feel constrained by the past; do not fear the future. Live in the present moment as well as you possibly can.

I am a sucker for space movies. The first one I ever saw, when I was a kid, was a curious little clunker called First Spaceship on Venus , m...

Voting is under way for the Writers Guild leadership positions. I have already cast my vote for the opposition slate, for reasons which I ha...

When I was in college I had to work to support myself, part-time during the academic year and full-time during summer. That meant that I h...

At the urging of my two sons, I have thrust myself into the world of streaming television. I was aware of how popular certain series were, b...

As I grow old and grey and full of sleep (to borrow from Yeats), my attention is increasingly divided between the very long past and the f...

It has been a year since I first watched the YouTube video of Yuja Wang playing the Liszt B-minor piano sonata. (I know it has been  a  ye...