Sep 27, 2017 | A Day In My Life
When I was little, I always wanted a sister. Instead I got a baby brother. The first time I saw Frank, he was an infant nestled in my mother’s arms. Mouth open, face screwed into a ugly scowl, he was shrieking at the top of his lungs. Despite the noise, my mother...
Sep 26, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Considering how things ended up, it’s hard to believe this day started out so well. Early spring always fills me with optimism, and this morning I had even more reason to be cheerful. Two new callers had inquired about the boarding and grooming services offered at my...
Sep 25, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Hi Dru Ann and all you LOVElies (see what I did there?). Thanks for letting me (Shannon Baker) and Jess Lourey share a little taste of our characters’ days. Jess and I are globetrotting with our second Lourey/Baker Double Booked Blog Tour and we wouldn’t travel a mile...
Sep 24, 2017 | A Day In My Life
To be an actor is to be the height of holiness. After all, an actor must be mother, father and womb simultaneously, in order to birth a living, breathing human, all in front of a live audience. And all while projecting her voice. To be an acting teacher, is to be a...
Sep 23, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I’m Virginia Knightly, Executive Producer of the top-rated newscast in Washington, DC. (There, I said it, and still get the chills: Virginia Knightly. EP. My own show.) A dream come true. The best job in the world, doing important work—telling the truth about the...
Sep 22, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My immediate crisis was a humongous black Suburban driving too fast in the slow lane by a driver obviously too young, and too stupid, to have been allowed out on a day like this. She’d gone whipping past me moments earlier, cell phone to her ear, and now, having...