Best Bad Day Ever

Today was a pretty rough day, but it was also pretty rockin’.  Here’s why:
Gut Shot #1: Parking ticket in Central Square, even after I fed the meter.  Should have remembered that they stalk those metal boxes just waiting for someone to be five minutes late, like I was.
Silver Lining: I sat in the car eating [...]

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Gettin’ Down to It… With a Capital ‘I’

The second step is simple: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Al-Anon claims to have atheists amongst them; and, indeed, I’ve met some that have entered as such and found their way to their own personal higher power.  Me, I’ve always carried a higher power around with [...]

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Random Thoughts – Random Snapshots

Sudden downpour in Harvard Square.  Dashed under the awning at Au Bon Pain with the homeless and night maurauders of the outdoor chess scene.  Sleeping man at a table, one dollar bill flapping in the wind.
The rain.  Verdict?  My bike sucks in the rain.  Like, a lot.  Mental note: Get helmet back from Prana where [...]

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Just Another Mullet-Filled Day

I’m going to go out on a limb here and post a rant that could be conceived as borderline racist.  Classist, almost certainly.  But, let’s talk about this.  Let’s talk about Empire Beauty School, formerly Blaine! of Boston.
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a cheapskate.  If I believe it exists for a cheap price, I [...]

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Cut Me A Break

So, I’m driving to work on Mass Ave today – early this Sunday morning – and I approach two women waiting patiently at a cross walk.  To their side, there’s a man brazenly striding across the street, just reach the center island at the same time as I do.
As I approach he waves at me [...]

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Nothing Day – Saturday the 22nd

Tomorrow I work a full day with two kids, and don’t stop until next Saturday.  Today I enjoyed my last day off for a while, and with nothing planned, I soaked up the details of the day.

A tiny little dog, sitting happily panting in a fountain between Fanuiel Hall and the North End.
Two tourists, walking [...]

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Life of Wellness

The book talks about self-healing and it leads me to think about my life as a massage practitioner.  Originally an idea as a back-up job to acting, massage has become much more to me than just this.  It’s a way for me to give back, to better understand the way we humans work as a [...]

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Mid-Step Thought

Actors are lonely people.  Probably artists in general, but I’ll only speak for myself for now.
Most folks have day jobs (I know. I talk about the infamous day job a lot).  And, like them or hate them, most people have co-workers whom they spend a significant amount of time with and know intimately – at [...]

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Surrogates – Coming Soon

Here’s the trailer for the new Bruce Willis film I did a day on last summer.  It was a pretty horrid casting experience, complete with lying booking agent, but the shooting itself was enjoyable and the film looks promising.  (Doesn’t hurt I’m a big Bruce fan.)  Am going to be sure to look for myself [...]

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The Importance of a Cup of Tea

I never thought I would want to explode at an in-law until I had my own to do that to.  Spoke too soon.   Nanny life has given me a set of in-laws – the proverbial grandparents who know how to do everything better than I do – three full days a week.  At first it [...]

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