Set Up

i would have snuck quietly under the radar, humming along time (i have blogged since 1999, see musings). but, i've now given in. i have an artsy mom blog. sheesh. 

quick set-up for those who are new to the artsy mom blog scene. 

this is where i started. all naive and intense, a student in boston. the floppy sweater and careless hair give me away as a theatre major. what you don't see are a very practiced lauren bacall smolder and the myriad hippy jewelry.

i spent one year at the school for the arts at bu. it was a fun time, punctuated by flirting in the student lounge between cigarette drags and rolling around on the floor in acting class - you're a snake! you're a mammal! you're going through the birth canal!

i wasn't ever lonely. i was surrounded by about 80 other like-minded nutters. i remember most of them fondly. thespians can be extremely generous and cool. lots of tarot, conversations about jung and chekhov, journaling, and plenty of cheap red wine. yum!

in spite of all the fun to be had in boston, i transferred to northwestern university after one year, which is where i wanted to be in the first place. a steady decline in grades and a penchant for trouble-making delayed my entree, so i came in as a soph. this is me here during junior year, playing ann margret—i mean the mom—in tommy, my first and, to date, only musical theatre role.

i was in a band then and another after graduating. i consulted famous psychic sonia choquette to see what to do next, music or acting. She told me " just do not move to los angeles, no matter what." 

despite her warnings, i was on a plane two weeks later to find fame and fortune.

 I don't think there was an actor in LA back then who was less famous or less fortunate. I got cancer and had to hike it back home to Chicago for some medical interventions. 

Then I met the guy. Then we had the baby. Then some other stuff. 

The rest comes next.