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A bird ran into my house the other day. I was sitting in the living room, working, and all of a sudden I heard this tremendous thud. I open the door, and this little bird was on his back, totally stunned but alive. I wanted to find out what kind of bird it was, butRead more

Here’s your much needed reminder about acting, life, and whatever you might be going through today: Nobody has life solved, nobody has it perfect. It’s always, ALWAYS, a work in progress, and you’re always figuring shit out. It doesn’t matter if you’re Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, or just who you are now in your ownRead more

Let’s deconstruct feeling, shall we, as it seems to be at the crux of almost all of our problems. Individually, culturally, and from a societal standpoint. Think about it. Isn’t almost every challenge you’re up against in life in some way a direct correlation to how you feel? About the situation? Or yourself? Or theRead more

We argue for many things. Our freedom. Our human rights, especially if they seem to be threatened. Affordable healthcare for all. We argue against many things. Donald Trump. His administration. Politicians. Members of Congress who do nothing for their constituents. Bigots and homophobes and all-around haters. We see arguments happening everywhere these days. But theRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. Here’s two ways to get there (in addition to last week’s lesson about the unknown). 1) Give Up the Blame Game. The energy that you give to the things you’re blaming is the energy thatRead more

Oh, the mind. It provides so many reprieves from daily living. It allows us to travel in our imagination to far away places. Seize an inspired idea. Write beautiful poetry and compose lyrics to a song. In its brilliance, it comes up with solutions for the problems that face humanity. Vaccines and alternative energy technology; clean water resourcesRead more

Mystery writer, Harlan Coben says, “The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.” That’s because the truth, no matter how funky and dark and ugly it sometimes appears, always liberates us into light. By facing it, you see that it’s not ugly at all ”“ but an amazing gift, that for some reason we were seeingRead more

What mask do you live in that you’ve outgrown? There are hundreds. The ditz, the brainiac, the dumb-ass, the bitch, the too-cool- for-school, the douche, the weirdo, the sex-pot, the serial apologizer, the victim, the comic relief. We all know them. And can identify. And they all keep us from stepping into the real people we wish toRead more

I’m reading this great book right now about phases of life transitions (meaning we’re all getting older!) called Falling Upwards by Richard Rohr. One of the things he talks about is that we learn how to recover from falling by falling. So to fall is to learn, grow, evolve, prosper, fly and ultimately succeed. Totally counterintuitive butRead more

There are many. It’s conditional. We equate love (receiving it more than giving it, but sometimes that too) with an absurd non-mathematical equation: If I do this, I’ll be loved. If I don’t do that, I won’t. It’s illusory. The premise that perfectionism is built on is faulty. That is; there’s something fundamentally wrong with us that needsRead more