Plunge

There are two basic ways to enter a swimming pool. The first involves testing the water, cautiously inching your body into the pool as you slowly descend the steps or the ladder. It’s all about deliberateness and the hope that this “safe” approach will allow you to avoid any unpleasantness. The second, of course, is to [...]

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Taking Pitches

In baseball we often see a batter “take a pitch.”  In other words, before the ball is thrown the batter decides he’s not going to swing regardless of how good the pitch is.  Sometimes this is a tactic to tire his competition–the pitcher–out.  Sometimes it’s an attempt to draw a walk because that’s the best [...]

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Wrong Turn at Lung Fish: Critical Decisions in Strategic Evolution

Twenty years ago the brilliant Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theater Company debuted Garry Marshall and Lowell Ganz’ play Wrong Turn at Lung Fish.  This farcical piece is an inquiry into the often harmful peculiarities of human behavior.  In a pivotal scene, one of the characters wonders whether mankind may have made a profound wrong turn along the [...]

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