Oh dear ….I feel a sea shanty comin’ on! Lower the life boats! A SEA SHANTY Hope is like a stubborn ship, Sea-worn and barnacle-crusted! She's a fine old girl, setting all hearts a’twirl Though she’s not to be totally…
View writingIf hope is like a ship, thought Vince, my hope is like the godforsaken Titanic, an unsinkable ship ripped open by an iceberg, that promptly sank to the bottom of the sea. Yeah. Death is real. He was heading to…
View writingMothers Day was harder on others who know me than it was on me. They only “imagined” what I was going through---an expression I’ve heard, often amended to the negative: “I can’t imagine what you’re going through.” For me, Mothers…
View writing[word count=66 words] Give me not your crappy 'maybe' Your 'if', your 'we dare not right now.' Make up your mind, do something crazy, After all. you do know how? This limbo, this purgatory, Does it match your easy style?…
View writing“It was magical.” That’s what people say now describing a special experience. And, the phrase works; we get the idea. “It was magic” is slightly different, applying, I think, to some unanticipated coming-together. These expressions come and go. I’m glad…
View writingOh, Evalyn, I am so glad to have you as my partner this week. I haven’t read your post yet because I am easily influenced but I can’t wait to. I think one reason that theater actors are so superstitious…
View writingEvery actor starting a career needs to learn this true thing : they need you as much as you need them! Heck…every seasoned, deeply experienced actor needs to remember this lesson as well…because for the most part, actors who are…
View writing[an ongoing story of an aimless young woman Amelia, her take-charge friend Jana, they are at the vet with Amelia's beloved dog] The tech who stood her ground in front of the big doors that lead to the hospital part…
View writingJust a short ode to this week. Despite five days of interruptions too deep to name, despite literal interruptions of requests for my time, despite my paper thing psyche, I wrote something, even today. When i get on my yoga…
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