Apr 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
I learned to bartend from a handsome, pepper-bearded, and self-described “old queen” named Daisy in Key West, Florida when I was 19. It was at a restaurant called Mangoes off Duval Street, and I was the youngest and only straight bartender. During that time, I lived...
Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is no better person to celebrate you than YOU! You’re an incredible dancer, a fabulous painter, and a marvelous photographer. You write like a dynamic poet and sing like a rock ‘n’ roll angel. You’re a badass musician, an awesome...
Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve been playing piano since I was about four years old. My grandparents, who lived in Nebraska, had an upright piano in their den. I used to climb up onto the piano bench and make up music. I had no formal training and no idea what I was doing, because, to me, I...
Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Chronic pain has lived inside me every day and every year for the past 30 years. How it began and where it exists is less important than how I’ve lived with the affliction. Despite getting jumped by two different gangs, being born with a birth defect in one kidney,...
Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
When you visualize what you want, do you picture every aspect of it? Imagine what it feels like when you get there. The feel of the wind on the mountaintop. The sound of the audience applauding you on stage. The smell of your published book when you open the front...
