February 14, 2012
Happy Valentines Day to you-- my friends, family, clients, colleages and advocates!In honor of this day and how much I appreciate you, enjoy a free mp3 of my song, Valentines Day at the Satellite Bar and Grill. Just click on the link below!...
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February 10, 2012
I recently watched the movie Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts as a prostitute named Vivian who is ultimately saved from a life on the streets by her involvement with a wealthy man named Edward (played by Richard Gere). About halfway through...
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January 11, 2012
Have you ever noticed how your husband or male boss or co-worker rolls his eyes, shuts down or gets downright impatient when you tell them a long-winded, fact-filled story or observation that your girlfriends might find utterly fascinating? Most...
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June 6, 2011
I was a grade-grubbing, hard-working student, raised to excel at all costs. I aimed for straight A’s throughout middle school and high school, mostly so I could present my parents with a stellar report card. Failure in any way was synonymous...
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April 11, 2011
I don’t know exactly when I became phobic of bees, wasps and yellow jackets.
Maybe it started when, as a three year old, my older brother left me hanging in the toddler swing set in the park across the seat from the house, with a nasty, late-...
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January 26, 2011
If you haven’t seen the film, The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, and nominated today for a whopping 12 Academy Awards, run, don’t walk to your nearest movie theatre and buy a ticket!
Let me say, right off the bat, that I’m...
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August 26, 2010
My mother, Theresa, was a force of nature: Joyous, divinely artistic, unpredictable, enthusiastic and passionately invested in every moment she had the pleasure to inhabit.
One sunny afternoon, when I was ten years old, after we had just finished...
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June 15, 2010
As a performer, the worst directors or coaches I ever had barked out a result and expected me to fulfill it.
“Be more angry,” they’d say. Or “I need you to be more vulnerable.” And I’d scratch my head, wondering, “how the heck do I do that?...
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May 24, 2010
“First it takes your money.Then it takes your freedom.Then it takes your life.”
The words were, raw, bare, and gritty with feeling. Behind him, pale, still, tattooed, and in a brown wooden casket, lay his son, Andy. Dead at 24 from a two-year...
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April 2, 2010
As some of you already know, I watch American Idol. I do this for many reasons, not the least of which is that I get to observe performers come through under pressure, which provides fodder for articles like this. Last week, one of my favorite of...
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