It seems like just yesterday that I was a 20-year-old acting student hanging out in Greenwich Village, drinking black coffee, and going to midnight showings of foreign films that I pretended to like and understand because the guy I loved liked them. Back then, I wouldn’t have dreamt of telling someone I loved, or in fact, even someone I hated, what I really thought about … [Read more...]
Life in the Mirror
With very few exceptions, I’ve been partaking in a daily ritual since I was about 16. I’ve performed it in front of an audience of acting students for a class exercise as well as with a dressing room full of other women, and sometimes men, getting ready to go onstage. I’ve even done it in front of a nurse a few hours after giving birth to my first child. Not to mention the … [Read more...]