I was a Communications major and have been involved with improv and theater for over fifteen years. Along the way, people I've known or been acquainted with have gone on to some success. Until now, they've been people I really liked and I'm nothing but happy for their success ( Read more... )

Life after divorce is all the responsibility of being 40 with the same income I had when I was 22.

A very short and quick turn of events: after weeks of feeling like a complete pervert in my acting class because the scene I've been working required me to portray a complete pervert, tonight the teacher and the TA came over to me and said that they're switching me to a different scene partner and scene. My scene partner was MIA tonight, has been ( Read more... )

Been a while since I blogged on the Acting class. So the first odd thing is the warm up, in which the instructor says, "Oh, I just learned this game! Uh.. well, I can't remember the name of it, but let me try to explain it." She gets about two sentences into her description, and I blurt out the name because hell, I know this game-- "Oh!" I say, " ( Read more... )

(Note: also posted as a Note on my Facebook page.)I am increasingly perplexed by reaction to the Roman Polanski case that runs along one or more of these lines ( Read more... )

This is not an eight dollar sandwich.

I come out here when I can, when time permits and I feel the urge. It’s lovely here. At this time of day, before the tide comes in, you can walk down there-down to the southern tip of the island-and see the tide pools.

Jonathan loved this view. He loved this island. We came here on a whim. It must have been… ( Read more... )

Specifically, I will type this now and write it down with ink & paper later as the class in question requires that I keep a journal.

I'm taking an acting class. This is the first acting class I've ever taken that isn't an improv class. I've been meaning to take an acting class for years out of a sense I've always had that I don't know what the hell ( Read more... )

So I went to the DC area for a few days, hung out with some old friends, ignored reality for a couple of days, saw the sights (less than I wanted to; I was utterly unprepared for how much stuff is there...)

I will say this, because I just loved it so damn much: The Smithsonian National Museum of American History became one of my favorite places in ( Read more... )

Hope is an ethereal and elusive element that hovers like a ghost in the frame, an artifact of persistence of vision. Should you try to look directly at it, it disappears.

I can't express how excited I am to hear that country music superstar Tim McGraw has released his own cologne, named "McGraw". Naturally ( Read more... )