Okay, Okay. There have been lots of great stuff happening. I am skipping that list to go to the main event: I am actually working (under a deadline) on my musical AKA my one-woman show. After decades of talking about it, I am actively doing it. For real, for real. My friend the acclaimed solo artist and teacher Arlene Malinowski, who also helped me form some of the early stories I had written, summed it up thusly: You just need to find someone to put their foot on your neck! I found that …
Bricks and Mortar
And I said to him: your silence is like a wrecking ball. Then I realized that no one can knock my house down. I've stood tall and strong for fifty years. I started thinking of how much damage I've done to myself: weight, unfulfilled promise of my talent, fear and lack of action. Sometimes I stop working on my life and just go day to day, waking and sleeping, running errands, paying bills and not much else except worrying about the past, ignoring real issues and yearning for love and …
Life is Good, mostly
... especially if I focus on certain things like my upcoming appearance in Tony Fitzpatrick's play "Stations Lost" at Steppenwolf Garage or the recent string of great gigs we've been rocking lately or the recent flurry of social events I've managed to leave my diva cave to attend. Life is shit if I focus on my mountain of debt, my weight and my aching knees. But why even go there? I've decided to accentuate the positive for my own sanity's sake! …
Been meaning to write but inexplicably unable to do so…
Yep, I'm going thru a phase. But I'm coming out of it now. What was going on in my life: My house was out of control. I didn't feel like cleaning it, ever. My weight was out of control. I didn't feel like dieting, exercising or giving a damn, ever. The economy caught up with me and business was real slow. Didn't go shopping, ever. Was feeling sorry for myself and not feeling or thinking about anything at all - all at the same time. I was sick of people giving me shit, manipulating me and …