So many people I know have lost their homes. People I've worked with, people I know from the festival circuit, people I've been social media buddies with for a decade. This is all so heartbreaking and deeply fucked.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Beautiful and even a bit healing. Everyone should read this.

Column | Work Advice: How to say no to colleague who wants to meet outside work Male colleague keeps inviting his younger female co-worker to meet up outside of work. She worries her friendliness may have sent him the wrong message.

This week’s Work Advice: How do I say no to invitations to meet up after work?

(Written for my younger self who thought “Oh, there’s no way he’s hitting on me, I’m way too young to hold his interest, he’s just being nice” and later “Oh no, did I lead him on by being myself?”)

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Casted – Usage and Meaning See how to properly use the word "cast" or "casted" with this quick grammar guide.

Hello 2025! Time for the reminder that the past tense of cast is cast. Examples: She was cast in a show. The casting director cast 5 films last year. The show was cast in 2022. I cast a spell on you and now you’re mine.

Casted is not a word.

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The Empire State Building shines red, white, and blue in tribute to the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter.

Every blanket is a weighted blanket if your cats are chonky enough

Someone make this happen

Don’t engage with the pearl clutchers.

My toxic trait is that I always leave two sips of coffee in the cup.

Mary Tyler Moore accidentally nailed a perfect trick shot in *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1962)—on the FIRST take.

It was supposed to be done by a pro, but she shocked everyone and pulled it off herself. Absolute legend. 🎱✨

#ClassicTV #FunFacts

I don't mean to brag but l'm a bit of a triple threat: I can make it weird when I'm talking too much, I can make it weird when I'm not talking at all, and I can even make it weird when I'm talking the appropriate amount. Look out world.

Quick intro!

SAG-AFTRA actor and USAF veteran.

Meisner trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse (thank you GI Bill!).

Happy to work with other creative folks to tell powerful stories. Reach out!

Bad at social media but always here for cat pics and kindness.

Bigots get blocked.

*sigh*

Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part.

There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work.

Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.

The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl...

She changed Thanksgiving in unanticipated ways. www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...

The police report on the Pete Hegseth allegations has been obtained by Mediaite and it is absolutely horrific.

Link here: www.mediaite.com/politics/new...

Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project's “The Laramie Project,” canceled last weekend with less than a day’s notice at Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix AZ, is back on for a single performance this coming Friday night. Kudos to the local advocates who made this happen!

If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.