"So your acting, was this a dream deferred?" Part 2
So, how did a middle aged doctor's daughter and doctor herself embark on this path of actor? (And yes, actor is now the word for all of...
A Black History Month factoid I'll bet anything you don't know.
I'm always amazed at all the things I was never taught in school about black history. But image my surprise when I discovered how much I...
"So your acting, was this a dream deferred?"
Stage Makeup Class, College of Marin, taught by Patricia Polen, 2015 Please, don't make Langston Hughes roll over in his grave!!!...
"How could they just send you home from the neurologic ICU, messed up as you were?"
That question was from an audience member following a performance of My Stroke of Luck at The Marsh, San Francisco. (I'm dedicating this...
"So what do you think it is with doctors not seeking help?"
That was the first audience question at my talk back Saturday night. What indeed! Everyone has heard, "Doctors make lousy patients," and...
"How can you do the same show over and over again?"
I'm asked that a lot. But that question assumes that the actor simply delivers the same performance every show. In fact, nothing could...
Bathing in laughter, feeling cozy, warm and fuzzy...
No, not curled up in bed, though that is one of my favorite pass times! In the theater! Thursday morning was cold and rainy, not an...
This will make you change your New Year's resolutions!
"Keep the faith and keep on living in the moment. That's what I learned from this stroke." No, not my words. The words of Brian W., a...
This will make you rethink your holiday shopping!
Still searching for that unique gift for that special person? You'd think a young man would remember his first car. But this photo,...
They shoot horses, don't they?? (Or: Laryngitis 1 week before opening? REALLY ???)
(Above, Takeshi, me and Logan, Christmas sabbatical year in New Zealand 1999-2000.) The six weeks of My Stroke of Luck at The Marsh San...
