Archive - The Green Chair by Alice Melott

He whispered in my ear at the first dress rehearsal. "Act short. Those heels make you too tall." It was 1979, and I had the great good fortune to be…

Mar 13

When she was a young starving actress, Barbra Streisand would sit at a bar in Greenwich Village and wait for somebody to offer to buy her a drink. “I’d…

Mar 3

January 2023

DATELINE Jan. 7, 2021 — I got an early morning call from a client asking me to review a message he had drafted overnight in response to the insurrection…

Jan 26

December 2022

Happy New Year! Anybody got a hat?

Dec 31, 2022

Please excuse me while I rearrange the furniture. Substack is a new platform for me. It’s intended to be my writing desk — and a place where we can…

Dec 27, 2022

I exited the corporate world in 2006 and opened a real estate brokerage in Galveston, Texas. On September 13, 2008, we were wiped out by Hurricane Ike…

Dec 27, 2022

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