Confessions of a Single Parent (Actress)

This is the time of the year where auditions for TV and stage are prevalent for work over the summer or for the upcoming season. Offers are coming in or the chance of unemployment is on the horizon. No matter where you find yourself, remember YOU. Because it is easy to get distressed, depressed, worried, or simply left with no idea of what to do next. Remember we are artists for a reason. We are innate creative beings where the possibilities are endless and we can also imaging the worst case scenarios and make ourselves crazy. No worries about those pesky bills that you may not be able to cover with your survival job. In the midst of that there is a script that you always wanted to write and film. There is a gig that you have been wanting to create that allows you to share your expertise in helping others with auditions, technique, and even prepping for TED talks (yes, that is a thing). You may want to be a blogger or vlogger and share your ideas with everyone. And know that in thi...

Today is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination and the birthday of the late Dr. Maya Angelou. On her birthday, Ms. Angelou sent flowers every year to her dear friend, the late Coretta Scott King to mark the occasion. She often spoke of the sorrow she felt when April 4th came each year. In 1967, at a retreat, Dr. King stated the following: "I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…[W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…In short, we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society." His plan that was abruptly ended with his untimely death intended to bring poor people together to demand...