When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

We grew up in the Clear Lake area. We have seen the communities fight to keep high-rises out, especially in Nassau Bay, but the market is very strong because of the waterfront property.

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'