Category: PERSONAL
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what do you mean not legal???

This has been a great year of learning so far. This month’s word – legal. It is a word I know, and have found myself doing things over time that skirted the boundaries; so technically, it is really more about its use in a specific context. I have been a…
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“Tiling” Extras – vignettes to go…

As an extra, I just learned about “crowd tiling” while on the set of a movie being filmed. The word “tiling” was explained, and then I was asked to move from the great seat I had inhabited for a concert scene. As the movement stalled for a second, I googled…
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Background was always in the background…”to be”

As a younger person, I wanted “to be” many things over time. Like a singer (but I couldn’t sing), a musician (but it never came naturally), a stoner/drifter (at that, I excelled for a while – never meant to be coke/meth/opioid addict; oh well, I survived that too)…but never did…
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2024…ok, at least one more day…

Goodbye 2023. This time last year, I was just home from my second heart attack of December 2022, and it would be a few months before I really got my feet back under me….but here I am. Truly happy when I open my eyes, truly happy. I snuck by for another…
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Tennessee me…

There are those few seconds when the dust is rising against the heat of a summer day (you can feel it, taste it) and the first drops of rain that try to beat it back down…when humidity threatens to stop your breathing and the sun moves behind the clouds. A…
