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Short + Sweet Hollywood 2025
Update: (much over due!) We made it to the Finals! As I write this the Festival is now over, and Perseids took home a number of honors: crew takeover award for "Best Drama" Festival award for "Best Playwright" As well as some things I can claim no responsibility...
Theatre Work
“Wendy Gough is a consummate theatre artist.”
-Jacob Clark, NoHoLA
Musings
It’s the Journey
This March, in 2019, marks 20 years since I first stepped onto a dojo mat as a student. My first thought upon making this realization is, “I really should be better at this by now.” My second is, “Who the hell could've predicted that?” To be fair to myself, I had...
For the Love of Books – The Last Bookstore
Further Adventures in LA... “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus This week I took a jaunt downtown to visit The Last Bookstore. California’s largest used book and record store, the Last Bookstore is a...
Adventures in wonder-land: The Brewery Artwalk
Adventures exploring Los Angeles continued... Saturday, October 13, I went to the Brewery Artwalk. The Brewery is the largest live-work art colony in the world, located on a 16-acre-compound that was once the Edison Electric Steam power plant and then a Pabst Blue...
The Other Door
Not too long ago, a yoga studio opened up next door to the martial arts studio where I train. The two businesses share a parking lot in the back, and both have a rear entrance, along a narrow path about five feet below the level of the parking lot. One day, I...
Running in Parking Lots
Today I’m going to tell you about my brother. I don’t often bring up my bro because it starts a longer conversation that is often off-topic to whatever point I’m trying to make at the time. And some days, I’m just not interested in having that particular...
The Irrationality of Love
It’s 3:00 pm on a Saturday and I’m sitting in a loft of a church that’s been converted into a theatre. The space holds seating for 27 audience members, and the seats I’m sitting in were installed in their current configuration by my husband (with the help of a crew...
Claiming Space
“Unless I’m crying or bleeding, you don’t need to apologize.” I found myself uttering this odd phrase the other day during Kenpo class when I was practicing techniques with a girl who was about 12 years old (and taller than me). Our dojo in Granada Hills is still...
Pushing Paper
I work for a nonprofit, InsideOUT Writers (IOW). IOW’s mission is to reduce the juvenile recidivism rate. If you don’t really know what that means (and a surprising number of people don’t), they are trying to keep incarcerated kids from going back to juvenile hall...
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