May 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Time slows to a crawl when you’re nearly nine months pregnant. Every day is a struggle, because you feel like a klutz. A fat klutz at that. Your joints loosen up, your balance shifts, and your feet become a distant memory. With the first baby, you’re excited and...
May 20, 2016 | A Day In My Life
In my thirty-three year soap career, I acted in dozens of scenes that involved the soap’s entire cast. A wedding, costume ball, or New Year’s Eve party were popular settings for the multi-episode shoots that would resolve one storyline and launch a new one. Romances...
May 19, 2016 | A Day In My Life
It’s June in Los Angeles, 1907, and I’m not wearing my corset. The silk of my Madeline Vionet dress slips across my bosoms and I feel wonderful. Mrs. Cooper notices my jiggling and sends me upstairs. It is, I tell her, too hot for corsets and cantankerous chaperones...
May 18, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Stable manager, eh? And not any old stable manager but the stable manager to the Dowager Countess, Lady Edith Honeychurch at Honeychuch Hall. Blimey! Not every man gets a second chance in life especially after spending a number of years off and on at various...
May 17, 2016 | A Day In My Life
“Nigel,” I yelled from the kitchen where I stood surrounded by random stacks of unopened moving boxes, “Remind me never to let you be in charge of labeling the boxes again. I have no idea where anything is!” Nigel’s dark head popped into view from the dining room....
May 16, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Anyone will tell you the restaurant business is one of the hardest in the world. Long hours and lots of physical endurance are required to keep customers happy. And always, always a smile. Folks in Zinnia, Mississippi tell me the town wouldn’t be the same without...
