I just finished reading The Glucose Goddess Method by Jessie Inchauspé. It’s more of a cookbook, really. Her first book was Glucose Revolution. In it, she outlined 10 Hacks to help you reduce glucose spikes caused by eating our Western diet. In The Glucose Goddess Method, she focuses on only 4 of those Hacks. And…
Psst. Do you want to know how to add 7.5 years to your life? Quit smoking? Lower your blood pressure? Reduce your cholesterol? This one thing has a bigger impact on your life span than those other things. What is it? Having a positive attitude towards getting old. Having a positive mindset has as much…
It drives me crazy. I’m like two different people. Morning Me and Evening Me. Morning Me is full of possibility. Brimming with ideas and potential. Energetic and excited. Evening Me wants to watch TV. And to veg and not have to do anything strenuous. But Morning Me has to go to work. I can’t do…
I’ve been working on my creative blockage for almost two years now. I’ve been blocked for longer than that. But in July 2022, I started working through The Artist’s Way to help get me “unblocked”. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about. In terms of playwriting, that is. It’s that I can’t…
It’s rare that I get scared before a play. Anymore. It’s weird. Because I used to get that flutter of nervousness before going on stage. The sweaty palms. The shallow breathing. That percolation of unease in my belly. The anxiousness… That darn nagging thought: Will I remember my lines? But I had a break from…
As part of my preparation for starting my new acting project, I’m rereading Do the Work. And a sentence popped out at me. I’ve read it a bunch of times previously. But it’s lingering with me today: A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you…
Just got off a Zoom call with the Director and rest of the cast for a show called Burn by John Muggleton. Rehearsals will start at the beginning of April. It was kind of a meet and greet. It’s a small cast. Four actors. And most of us don’t know each other. So, it was…
This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Compassion. It’s funny. Week 9 of The Artist’s Way has been the longest week for me so far. I “started” this week at the beginning of June last year. And I only moved onto week 10 seven months later. It’s not that I was working so hard…
Item #12 on My Five-Year plan is to put on The Lost Years in Montreal. The Lost Years is a play I wrote telling the story of Deb’s and my journey through parenthood. Deb and I performed it at the Hamilton Fringe in 2017. And we’ve been meaning to remount it ever since. We played…
Beth Pickens suggests having a Personal Maintenance Day every month. On the day of your birth. So, since I was born on February 22, my Personal Maintenance Day would be on the 22nd of every month. It’s a day to take assessment of your life. Think about your goals. Do the things you need to…
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