This was at our book launch for Self-Management for Actors in 2003. 🎬 We’d been together 2.5 years at this point, breaking my previous relationship record (9 month) and defying all predictions that we’d ever…
Posts tagged gratitude
This Time of Year
This is me 18 years ago. Like, almost to the day. Just before I took this photo, I’d journaled that it wouldn’t be much longer before mom would be done with this world. We’d discontinued…
Live Your Life
Hello you beautiful people! It seems I was just landing at LAX after all my gallivanting and I’m headed there again. Only this time, I’m just dropping off the hubs. He’s headed to Hawaii with…
Be the Role Model You Deserved
So I was talking with my phlebotomist a few hours ago (because THAT is how you expect a BonBlast to start off, right?) and thought of y’all. Let’s be clear — I think about y’all…
Remembering Your First
As I write this, it is two hours before a speaking engagement I have in Hollywood and I’m seated by the window in the 101 Coffee Shop. The first time I sat here (possibly in…
Cast Your Life
So, I’m prepping for this phonecall with a producer. One of the things I always do before having a potentially conflict-filled convo is the same thing I did before every performance of my actor life:…
Caring Less about What Others Think
Notice I didn’t title this “Stop Caring about What Others Think.” There’s a reason for that. Even those of us who really care very little what others think will have moments in which we’ll feel…
Are You SURE It’s Impossible?
My phone blew up. I mean, if I hadn’t already been eagerly watching the Television Academy livestream of the Creative Arts Emmys, there was no way I wouldn’t know the news. Kim won. Kim Estes…