It has been a long journey fraught with challenges, obstacles, disappointments, rejections and heartache but with this new year, I am happy to still be here ready to give it one last shot. I have reclaimed my writing corner in my house and made it a sweet little French bistro I would love to sit [...]
In my dream life I have just toured the country doing stand up, my children's books are on the shelves of the few remaining bookstores in America, my tv show is a hit and I am about to do a limited run on Broadway during the hiatus (in a variety show of sorts featuring singing, dancing, [...]
Due to life's twists and turns, a warrior was made. Doubt that was my original personality or intention but it has been necessary to survive both personal and professional battles. Perhaps one day I will get to walk off the battlefield into a sweet smelling meadow and sit down and smell the [...]
It is challenging to be a nurturing soul by nature and to try to nurture other souls who don't want to be nurtured...by you. Containment...it's what I am forced to do often - contain my emotions, contain my passion, contain my enthusiasm, contain my honesty and contain my need to nurture by [...]
"Own your truth. Don't let other people's truth become your truth". I came up w/that...I think...a good reminder.
Basking in the warmth of the water while the freeway sounds drift through the window permeating the peace, I am reminded that life isn't stagnant as a single water drop drips sending ripples through the calm...here's to that one water drop...
"Bravery is fear that said f&ck it I'm gonna do it anyway" (we've all heard some variation of that haven't we?)...you can't wait for the fear to subside in order to pursue your dreams whether they be personal or professional because the opportunity might just pass you by. It is time to grab [...]
My letter to you Miss 2011 – For some reason you were attractive, alluring, coquettish, flirty but you made promises you didn’t deliver. Oh sure there were some winks, nudges if you will, a come hither look now and then but you rejected my advances like a scorned lover when all I [...]
I don’t know what it is about my generation, whether it is the era we were raised in or the “me” generation we were raised by but sometimes it seems that even tho’ our lives are busier than ever and the world is at a breakneck pace, more than anything what we most hunger for, that which [...]
I used that phrase to describe someone else's situation and articulating it gave me an awareness for the first time of what I know to be true: While "opposites attract" is a lovely notion, too often we think that opposite qualities can be complementary when in fact they can also be a source of [...]