Reflections

It's 1937. Just as Sir Laurence Olivier is about to step onstage at the Old Vic Theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he excuses himself to go throw up.  Sir Laurence Olivier is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time. Rumor has it, he...

          “Nooooo!” Screamed the voice in my head as I walked past my still silent student. For years, I taught college theater classes on high school campuses in East Palo Alto. I’d tried what felt like a gazillion different things to get...

At just 14 years old, I found myself in charge of a bunch of screaming 10 year old girls. It had all started on the whim of a friend … We were part of a ponytail softball dynasty of sorts: The Ragamuffins. My friend convinced me that we’d make great coaches for the...

10 years ago, at a very well known public speaking conference, a group of people swarmed my table like a bunch of buzzing bees. They surrounded me on the break, each asking different versions of the same question: Why can’t we understand her? One of the speakers,...

Why do we suppress our inner WILD ones? Maybe it’s because they made us feel like we’re “too much” and “not enough” at the same time. Maybe we’re afraid that if we really owned our power, “they” couldn’t handle it. Or, maybe we’re secretly afraid that WE can’t handle...

As the garage door opened, seven-year-old me found herself yanked back into the “real” world from her magical, make-believe world. I was immersed in my dream story world with my hair pinned in curled pigtails like Cindy Brady. When my mother found me, it was like a...

They’re hanging on your every word.You’re vibrant and alive from head-to-toe.There’s ease. There’s connection. There’s magic. That’s what it can feel like after doing your very own, sacred, warm-up ritual. But first, you need to create yours … Mine all started 20...

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