July 4 has never been one of my favorite holidays. Now mostly on the 4th, I sit and listen to the amateurs try to blow of bits of their anatomy and scare peoples’ pets and upset folks with PTSD, and hope that they don’t set something on fire, and hope that it’ll all stop before…

Are you familiar with the phrase, “I’ve got a hitch in my get-along?” If not, it could be because your either too young or didn’t grow up in the Midwest – or maybe both. The phrase means: When a person is hobbled or slowed in some way by an obstacle or other impediment In my…

Someone once told me, “Boobs are a goodness.” And I do not disagree with that statement. However, boobs (especially my boobs) have been known to be very uncooperative. Boob wrangling is something I have dealt with in many performances. It started in high school – Once Upon a Mattress – I was playing Queen Aggravain.…

One benefit of shelter-in-place, I am now at over 130 consecutive days of doing my Duolingo Spanish lessons. I have been doing this for quite a while, but this is the longest streak I have ever achieved.  I seldom missed more than a day or two – but I also seldom ever made it more…

So, instead, I’m going to bitch about something really stupid. I’ve been watching The 4400 on Netflix. I pretty much like it, but there is one thing that is making me crazy. When the story calls for a woman in the show to eat ice cream (because we all know that every upset woman can…

When I went back to college, I found the work so much easier than my fellow students. Even with my fat OLD lady punkin’ head, I was able to accomplish things that stymied these sweet young things. As the saying goes: Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. (David Mamet) Okay –…

Allergies.  God (that I don’t believe in), I hate allergies. I never had them growing up in Michigan. But I have had them ever since I moved to California, and they only got worse when I moved to Northern California. To breathe or not to breathe – that is the question. The only thing I…

There is one thing you need for theater. You need it for auditions. You need it for rehearsals. And you need it for performances. That thing is your source of hydration. Never mind the little one-use bottles of water. Bad for the environment and don’t hold enough water. And some theaters are actually banning them…

I’ve been sweating whether I needed to have someone in to fix our dishwasher. The loads just haven’t been coming out clean – and you need to know, I’m one of those fools who washes the dishes before I put them into the dishwasher. Also, the dishwasher soap was glopping down the door. Not good.…

  There is a term in the fat community “FA” – Fat Admirer. Because of its history, there are some creepy connotations with that term. So I’ve decided to, for myself, to describe myself as an FBA – a Fat Body Admirer. Recently, I enjoyed a post in Vol-Up-2 that showed “plus-size” male models. All…