How I Learn
We’re tiptoeing into Christmas, and while I might be spending it in muggy Houston this year, my previous few months have seen winter weather aplenty. I spoke a few weeks ago about how I missed seeing the Northern Lights while I was visiting Norway, but I’d like to...
Walk With Me
I talk a lot about comfort zones and getting out of them, but I realize that I don’t often expound on my own adventures outside the wire. By the time you read this I should be well on my way to being comfortable again, but as I type it, I’m in a hotel in Ft....
Some Travel Advice
I get asked for travel advice all the time. It's fine of course, it's what I do, and I love to talk about it and share my lessons learned. I was recently asked for advice by someone who was considering solo traveling as a female. I don’t have a lot of female-specific...
Object in the Rearview Mirror
Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are. I feel like the warning works better this way. I cannot speak for every other profession, but in my realm, the one unavoidable tool of the trade is a notebook. I’ve been filling them up with stories,...
Hunting Season
I’m inviting you to go on a pheasant hunting experience, one to purge an invasive species from your world. Our minds, for all of their wondrous intricacies, are really just electrical computers running if/then statements. Social comparison is how we navigate the...
The Right Expression
I follow a lot of comic book artists on Instagram. As a doodler with a childhood full of superheroes, I sketch them all the time. It’s a wonderful distraction before shows, and if you look around the back of the club on any night I’m performing, you can probably find...
One More Time
There’s something to be said for doing things more than once. It’s true for a lot of things. I’m currently in The Azores, on Terceira Island specifically. This is at least my sixth time here, and I’ve walked away from every visit with a completely different...
No, It’s Not Just You
Hey there. Can I interrupt whatever you’re working on? Let me tell you about my last two weeks. I learned a lot of things. Most of them were not good. Twice I found myself in extremely uncomfortable situations created by other people. In the process,...
The Blueprint
In a world of self-help gurus and life coaches, we put too much importance on the blueprint and not enough on the work. One of the inarguable things I’ve learned in my twenty years in entertainment is that you cannot get out of putting in the time. I used...