Meandering Monday about Living with Myself

When I graduated from High School, there was only one thing I wanted to pursue as a career:  I was going to be an actor. I believe I was pretty good at it, and I loved throwing myself into other characters – this would happen throughout the entire rehearsal process, to the point where traits … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Native

Native is a funny word. When we talk about native speakers, we mean people who have been exposed to a language since close to birth and have spoken it since they could speak; it’s native to them. To expand a little further, native is something that’s with a person from their beginning – not something … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about My State of Mind

My wife and I do online surveys, and whenever they ask for demographic information, we like to clown around (to ourselves – we would NEVER answer any survey questions unseriously) (no, I really mean that.) When they ask what state we are in, we’ll joke and say CONFUSION, or DENIAL (but when we look through … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Undead

I am NOT a member of one of the zombie generations; in my day, the undead of choice were vampires. Not the silly, sparkly ones in the fairly recent teen angst versions, but the pale, sophisticated, highly educated vampires of the Bela Lugosi / Louis Jordan / Gary Oldman mold (even the Jack Palance vampire, … Continue reading →