When asked to define the word dream, most people say that a dream is either the nocturnal experience when a person is asleep, or an aspiration or goal a person wants to achieve. There is little that can be done about the first definition, but the ability to reach a goal, to follow a dream, is not beyond our control…

A few years ago, my writing partner, Lillie Evans, and I were notified that our full-length play script, Grandmothers, Incorporated won a playwriting competition. Our work was selected from over 600 submissions from 33 countries. Nobody could tell us that we weren’t hot stuff. We were ecstatic, on top of the world. We were also reluctant…