I need you to go Oprah on me. Please.
The performance that started it all — Dance Experiment, 2010 I share my offerings incessantly. I’m self-employed and am riding a ten-year wave of not paying for marketing or advertising. […]
Meet Marta: The Gray
During this round of Fear Experiment, where strangers who met early September confront various fears as they learn a capella, stepping, and storytelling in preparation for a one-night only performance in front of hundreds at […]
GUEST POST: Sometimes your 2nd choice is better than your 1st
During this round of Fear Experiment, where strangers who met early September confront various fears as they learn a capella, stepping, and storytelling in preparation for a one-night only performance in front of hundreds at […]
How to win at dating
Dating. It’s the best. It’s the worst. It makes you feel alive. It makes you feel like crap. I can’t get enough of it. Conversations about deal breakers, pet-peeves, activities, […]
Wiring money to Rwanda: what a way to end 2013
So, this happened today — In case you don’t speak Western Union, RWF = Rwandan Francs. For the sixth year in a row, Cheese-Its have come together to sponsor the […]
A lesson from a 15 yr old: “We are bigger than any fear”
Fear. We’ve all got it. Of spiders. Of drowning. Of speaking in public. Of kale. Of lazy susans. Of love. Of not knowing where to sit at lunch. Of being alone. […]
The weight of your words and actions
One of my mostest favoritest aspects of my job what I do [it feels weird to write ‘my job’; that phrase seems so NOT laughter, adventure, and glue sticks] are the […]
Having to buy your Cabbage Patch Doll on layaway, being bald, & getting fired don’t doom you for life
Business plan? Capital? An MBA? Rich-folk/political connections? Skinny-thighs? You don’t need no stinkin’ business plan, capital, MBA, connections, or skinny-thighs. Nine years ago I got fired, had none of above […]
The formula for curating a sold-out, feel-good, scalable event, over and over
When my first film, dating rubik’s cube, made with $150 [mostly tape-stock] and with me wearing the hats of videographer, producer, editor, distributor, sound engineer, and lighting-tech, won Best Short Documentary at […]
How getting fired ‘n rejected can be rainbows ‘n unicorns
Proof you can have a successful business with a sucky logo (or two or five) On this eighth anniversary of the birth of Mac ‘n Cheese Productions, I would like […]