Make Your Voice Be Heard

Who is the arbiter of good taste for you? arbiter: (n) a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining. When you were a kid and your mother said “try these brussel sprouts they are good for you and tasty too”, did you just take her word for it and shovel those little baby…

Ah Yes, I Remember It Well

Today’s blog entry is the first one that has had a deadline. There is one really good and fun reason.  I have, as you can see, had a logo designed for The Danieley Digest!!! Talented and gifted artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson, who does caricature sketches for…

A Different Kind of Challenge

I shudder to think what people might consider to be a stereotypical actor. I have a feeling it would be something like: “Likes to be the center of attention.” “Probably was the class clown.” “Has a healthy and huge ego.” “Cares only about themselves.” And…

Making Faces

If I try to put a starting point in my life to the moment I felt like I was acting it was probably when I was a toddler sitting in my high chair making faces at my grandma and grandpa. They thought it was the…

Steak or Cake?

I was a fat kid. Well, for a short time in my life I hadn’t had that growth spurt I needed to lengthen all of this God-given-goodness up into a taller leaner me.  😉 As I waited for that day, that never seemed to come,…

Something’s Coming

… There’s something due any day, I will know right away, soon as it shows. It may come cannonballing down through the sky gleam in it’s eye, bright as a rose… “Something’s Coming” from Leonard Berstein and Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story. What is your passion?…

A House Is Not A Home

A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sittin’ there But a chair is not a house and a house is not a home When there’s no one there to hold you tight And no one there you can kiss goodnight Darling,…

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

One of the most beautiful things about life is that it is impermanent, each moment is here and then gone. Sunrise Sunset One of the hardest things to do, as westerners and capitalists constantly trying to climb that ladder of success, is to savor each moment…

Family

It’s more than you, it is more than me Whatever dreams we have they’re for the family We’re not alone anymore now there are others there And that dream’s big enough for all of us to share. As Curtis sings to Effie in DREAMGIRLS. Don’t…

Money!

“Money makes the world go ’round, the world go round the world go round. Money makes the world go round it makes the world go round. A mark a yen a buck or a pound, a buck or a pound Is all that makes the…