Joe's Odyssey

“I am a guy who travels around telling a story that a guy who traveled around telling stories told about a guy who traveled around telling stories."

For my blog about my shows for the Washington and British Columbia Junior…

I’ve been rereading The Odyssey in full for the first time in several years, a book each day. It’s been amazing to see how my perspective on a story I know so well has changed.

It’s my first full reading…

Seeing as my trip last week to perform two shows at Northern Illinois University involved a simple drive out to DeKalb, Illinois, I'll spare you a post about travel (short story: I-90 to I-290 to I-88) and talk a little…

Be Where the Ides of March? 

(Okay, that was terrible: sorrynotsorry)

One of the interesting things about doing the Odyssey year after year is that it gives me natural signposts to mark the passage of time.  

For instance: one year…

It seems odd to start blogging about a project some 15 years after its creation.  

But these are the circumstances: this post is about the 208th performance of my one-man musical retelling of Homer's Odyssey, a piece most of which…