Today I visited a new grocery store in my neighborhood. There is a Starbucks inside. And, maybe 50 yards across the parking lot, there is another one. A freestanding cafe.
I do a talk about characterization, and make a passing comment to Starbucks and using it as a way to figure out who [...]
I’ve not really recovered from my weekend. Not really because of the bad run but because two days later was One of Those Days and I was already tired. The charming South American orienteer came back through and we had some fun, though we got stuck in a bomb scare at the airport. The [...]
I’ve been moving files from one computer to the other and feel scattered, so I haven’t had much brain to blog with, but in the interest of showing up, here is a playful one. In the voice workshop, one task I love is writing a list of 25 things I love. It’s refreshing in [...]
The news has stunned us all this morning: Michelle’s Chocolatiers, Ice Cream and Tea Room has been closed by the IRS. An icon of downtown Colorado Springs for more than fifty years, the restaurant was [...]
Here is something a mother never forgets:
22 years ago this morning, I was pacing a hospital hallway, GIGANTICALLY, ENORMOUSLY pregnant with my second baby. He was two week overdue. I had the waist circumference of a mid-size theater. I had not eaten bacon (or a lot of other things) in nine months. I [...]
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