I love the idea behind kickstarter.com it’s a funding platform for creative projects all over the world. If you’re an artist of any kind: musician, photographer, writer, sculpture, designer, film maker, theater owner, actor, etc., and have a creative project you need funding for, kickstarter. com is the place to be. From the site: “On [...]
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Me Not So Horny
My little 2000 Jetta turns 12 in May, and she’s hanging in there. I told myself when I bought her brand new in 1999 that I was going to drive her ’till she dropped, and I plan on sticking to that statement. Over the years there’s been a couple of fender benders, an electrical transmission [...]
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Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, can speak for his constituents and really for all of us because he doesn’t take any PAC money, nor does he owe any lobbyists. All of us who are left in the shrinking middle class and lower should be outraged by the Republicans stance on extending the tax [...]
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Last night coming home after a gig, coaching and going to Story Club, I was tired but sitting there on the shelf was the Netflix envelope for Young @ Heart. I checked in with Rance who is in Columbus, OH for the night to see if he wanted to watch it. “Young at Heart? What’s [...]
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I have no idea who this guy is, but I love the sentiment, the song and the video. The story behind it made my heart melt just a little bit. Need a little lift today? Give yourself the gift of this video. I Hope This Gets To You: A Viral Love Letter.
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I haven’t seen a winter in Chicago since 2006, every other year I’ve been working on a cruise ship for Second City and I’ve been really okay with that. There’s a sense of gentle excitement I feel about being here through the holidays. With the first snowfall this morning it’s made more real, add the [...]
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A few years ago at a time in my life when I was really focused on working out and eating right—more than I am today, I stumbled across a small little blurb in Shape Magazine for Yoga Today. It was, and still is, one of the best things to be found on the internet for [...]
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Tomorrow I’m finally getting a desk. I haven’t had a good writing space since getting off the ship last April. Sure, I have a laptop and technically I can take it anywhere to write, but I like having a space. A place that I can settle in and be surrounded by things that inspire me: [...]
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If you have dry skin, or are like me and live in Chicago where the winter weather will take a toll on even the healthiest of skin, here’s a product to love. I found out about it last year while working on NCL’s Pride of America sailing around Hawaii. The kukui tree is Hawaii’s state [...]
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