Harvester Dreams
Sure, civilization has learned to cast off a lot of what living on Earth meant, but political infighting sure wasn’t something we left behind… and the machines seem to know something about it… Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash
Planar Ghosts
Photo by Katerina Kerdi on Unsplash
Final Gifts book
I’d leap out of my chair and go find my sister Christy to read her some snippets aloud from this book — all while getting choked up on tears. Author Maggie Callanan is a nurse specializing in end-of-life care. Her stories and insights come directly from her experiences in that field. It’s insightful and brings …
Maangchi’s Korean Fried Chicken
My sister and I made Maangchi’s Crunchy Korean Fried Chicken. It’s good.See how Maanchi makes it here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jSh6VJYRV-g#friedchicken #cooking
NYT Bestseller “Nudge”
My book club is diving into the NYT bestseller and winner of the Nobel prize in economics book “Nudge” by University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunnstein. The book draws on research in psychology and behavior economics to look at the underlying engineering of choice arcitecture. Am …
MCAD – script reads
Spent the afternoon cold reading scripts with an amazing group of MCAD film students.From left: actor & director Patrick Coyle, and actors Rachel Weber and Paul Cram.#sagaftra #workingactors #twincities #education
An Odyssey
Nearly finished with best-selling author Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” It’s a memoir in which the author, a college professor who often teaches on the Greek classics, finds that his father enrolled in one of his courses. Specifically the course on Homer’s “The Odyssey.” An epic adventure unfolds in more ways than one, more than two …
Fear of Public Speaking? Not exactly
Is funny to me that public speaking gives me more butterflies than performing on stage or in front of a movie camera as an actor. Briefly spoke on the influence a group posseses as-a-whole and how each individual plays a part in the successful outcome of the group’s goals, during the January 2020 @tcwepnetwork event …
You are a little bit ugly…
Life is a lot better once you just accept the fact that you are a little bit ugly, utilize what you have, and move on with living adventures.
What’s Auditioning Like?
Funny thing about acting — auditioning is similar in a lot of ways to interviewing for work at any other job, you just keep doing the interview process every week, and often they go with someone else.