"Do you think the way you were treated after your stroke was because of race?"
Another audience question from talkback following performance of My Stroke of Luck. The deficiencies in my treatment, both at discharge...
Need your help: Which book would you buy?
Last Saturday, March 31st, I had the privilege of speaking with a number of editors and agents about My Stroke of Luck, the book!! YES!...
It's a wrap: gratitudes and lessons from My Stroke of Luck
Couldn't resist Bearded Collies bearing eggs, eggs being the ancient symbol of the earth, creation and life energy, the pagan symbol of...
"What were the first few months after your stroke like? And rehab?"
Of the first few months after my stroke, I have mainly sense and image memories, rather than verbal ones. Some of my senses were...
"Shouldn't you have gone to the hospital right away?"
"If you had another stroke, would you go to the hospital sooner?" More audience questions after performance of My Stroke of Luck. Yes,...
"You seem like there's nothing wrong with you."
"Thank you!" That's an observation an audience member makes at every Talkback. Then comes the question of how I am different since my...
"You couldn't even talk straight! Why didn't anyone tell you?"
Who says they didn't tell me? That might seem a flippant answer to an earnest question, asked by an audience member following a recent...
"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...
"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...
