It’s October, and I’m back at it! Perhaps you’ve wondered where I’ve been, well it’s all coming up this month so check back every day to get the deets. I must admit, it’s a bit scary writing about being fired….
How a Hard Night at The Hollywood Bowl Brought on a Simple Lesson
Perhaps it’s pretentious of me, posting this clip of myself singing along with the amazing vocal-stylings of Boyz II Men. But I hit that note when he sang the word tomorrow, though. Excuse me, is you sayin’ somethin’? Uh,…
The Director*
He hit me with a cheesy opening line that I regret I don’t remember. Followed by several self-deprecating ones that I’m sorry he felt necessary to tell. All before, unsolicited, he revealed that he was a director, and immediately I…
How I Write: How I Bit Off More Than I Can Chew
I was so disappointed in my April 14th and April 20th posts. I’m pretty sure they’re shit. I haven’t read them yet…well, I haven’t read them again yet. I haven’t read them again since I posted them because I’m afraid…
Writing in the Absence of Light
They say figure out what you love to do and find a way to get paid for it…or something like that. I think it was Kathie Lee Gifford who said her father told her that. And I guess with this…
7 Life Lessons I Learned from Climbing the Culver City Stairs
Last Wednesday I finally got around to completing my free day trip task by going to the Culver City Stairs and actually climbing to the top. Looking back, there were seven life lessons I picked up from that experience, and…
And I Can Feel This for Sure, I’ve Been Here Before
Sometimes I do this thing where I revisit previous journal entries from the same day, just to see what I was doing or thinking on that day in years gone by. Since I don’t write every day, I rarely find…
Maria Taylor’s ESPN Exit for a New NBC Role Is A Win, Not Without Ongoing Losses: Lesson we can all learn from this incident. Part III
Alas, we’ve made it—it’s the third and final part in this post. It’s the takeaway. And perhaps it’s the most important. Actually, nope – I’ll take that back. There’s no perhaps to it. To me, the takeaway or lesson we…
Learning How to Bounce Back After Failure
So you failed, now what? After my post, a few weeks ago, about failing quickly, I realized that while a post like that can be motivational, it also has the potential to leave you hanging. As if failure is singular….
How I’m Adjusting to My New Role
All my life I been a worker (Okay, not all my life, just the part of my life that I’ve had a job. But I just wanted to start this post off kinda like Sophia from The Color Purple: “All…