Just once before I die. . . one of those things categorized in my lifelong wish list like dancing in the ocean or writing a book.    Sometimes in life there are just too many precipices to climb and too many rivers to ford before passions can be fulfilled. Frankly, all that foreplay on the road to dreams can leave one standing there with nothing more than unwashed hands & squalid taste in the mouth.  Yet fate has a way of snickering at our complacency and then the opportunity is before you -seducing, beckoning - standing naked and vulnerable and you know you have to try it... just once before you die.

"Hey look, Ma, I've lost my acting virginity"!  Thanks Bill and John - you've been very patient and gentle.... Of course, you would have to break me in with a “sexist” script where the main female character was nothing more than a token of male subservience and brutish Neanderthal role-playing.  What can I say?  I was desperate for a part!!  But seriously, I remain amazed at how intelligent you both are.  Okay, (gush) but I'm glad you’re both my ever-funny and ever-tolerant friends.

Shakespeare's Dilemma in the words of actor Carla J. Behr