The Church of the Kevin Author:Kevin O'Brien You are about to open a mixed bag of stuff. That s because my life is a kind of mixed bag of stuff. Since 1994, my wife Karen and I have been producing comedy murder mysteries at wineries and dinner trains around the country with our company Upstage Productions. That s how we make our money. In 2007 we began a new company, the Theater of the Wor... more »d Incorporated, an acting troupe which tours the world evangelizing through drama. That s how we lose our money. Most of these comic pieces were written for my Upstage Productions email newsletter, which at one point had over 7,000 opt-in subscribers, and were tailored to the audiences who came to expect a kind of wild humor from me. The serious essays were written either for my blog, which can be reached from our website, or for Gilbert Magazine or The St. Austin Review, and are tailored to the audiences that know me best from the Theater of the Word, and who appreciate a more refined take on things. The poems were written for fun. But of course, despite the tailoring, there s a common thread to follow here. And if you follow this thread or give it a tug, one of two things will happen: you will either, like Ariadne in the Greek myth, follow the thread out of the maze and escape the clutches of the Minotaur; or you will tug on the thread and tear a nasty hole in the seat of your pants. Either way, let her rip ! Kevin O Brien« less