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Reverb12 Day Fourteen: Family Role

Did your role in the family shift or change over the past year?  How?  Why? In a sense. I do think that in many ways my relationship to much of my tumultuous family has taken a step back or two in recent years. There are tiny branches of my family with whom I get along, but …

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Reverb12 Day Ten: Greatest Risk

Went back to this list of prompts for today. What was the greatest risk you took in 2012? What was the outcome? It was starting my own theatre company. I studied theatre in college, and in the years since have appeared in many plays at various local community venues. I even get paid non-Union scale …

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On Chicken Shits

If you ever frequent my other blog, Always Off Book, you will find my thoughts and adventures and observations on the world of theatre. To be precise, amateur productions in which I find myself. It’s often like a journal to share with curious readers how my acting is going in any particular show. I offer …

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Failure? Keep It To Yourself.

We aren’t supposed to ever talk about our failures. Actually, I should qualify that statement. We’re never supposed to talk about our failures, except as part of our eventual success story. We can then mention how many times things fell apart, or blew up in our faces, or never got off of the ground. We …

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Still Standing. Okay, Maybe Leaning.

As some of my Twitter followers have survived by now, I have been away from regular internet access until yesterday morning. In fact until yesterday morning, I was rarely at my own home for about four days. On Friday evening, it would seem that a meteorological phenomena, (the name of which I heard once, and cannot for …

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