All Things Michael

In my college workshops with at-risk high school students, I try to utilize their life experiences as much as possible when exploring th...

A little over two months ago I was struck by a car while cycling, resulting in surgery to repair a fractured collarbone. A titanium...

Over the past three years, I’ve experienced a series of abrupt personal losses.   The latest one has torn a hole in my heart, smashed...

The Rolling Stage was David Shepherd’s first attempt at theatre after returning from India where he taught English at the University o...

The danger in working with at-risk teens for as long as I have is that sometimes you forget that this is the first time they are exp...

For about ten years, starting in the mid-nineties, David Shepherd explored improvising poetry with various diverse groups. As is his natur...