Sometimes you just want to take a break. A break from the routine. A break from the habit you’re trying to cultivate. To rest. But if you stop pumping. If you stop pushing the flywheel. If you stop your forward momentum… You might find yourself having to start all over again. One of my favourite…
When I was a teenager, I was terrified of rejection. I was so scared of getting a “no”, that I never asked a question. I never asked someone out. I never asked for someone’s phone number. My brother, David, got a girl’s phone number at the first dance he went to. And they went out…
When I was a kid, I had a magic closet. New clothes (to me) would appear from time to time. I would open the closet door one day, and there’d be a shirt or a pair of pants that wasn’t there the day before. I never questioned it. I accepted that fact that new things…
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…
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…
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…
I’ve embarked on a few 30-Day Challenges before. Mostly to write blog posts. Or other forms of writing. But the 30-Day Challenge is a good format to try out any new habit or routine. To see if you can maintain the activity. And to see if it sticks beyond the 30 days. A few years…
On the weekend, my daughter met up with a few of her friends and they all decided on their 30 by 30 lists. They’re 25 and it’s a list of thirty things that each one of them wants to get done by the time they turn 30. Kind of like a bucket list. But with…
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