Chandra - Now This Life

Reentry is difficult.Getting away briefly from my real life was beyond wonderful. Time to walk and shop and think and relax. Time to sleep in, to eat shrimp tacos on a sunny patio, to drink iced tea by the pool and take pictures of whatever grabbed my ...

The new Shape Magazine arrived in yesterday's mail, Jennifer Love Hewitt's bikini clad body in all it's airbrushed perfection on the cover. Grabbing it off of the sofa, Chloe started talking about the picture and how perfect the model's skin was. We ta...

I'm in the habit of watching each day for its best moment. Some days it can be a real challenge to find anything at all, but I make myself find something. On a difficult day I might look up and notice the blue of the sky, or an interesting reflection i...

This.This is what I long for, what I wait for all through the long months of November, December, January, through the fog and the rain, through the grey. Today, here she is, softly calling my name with the warm sunshine through my window at work, whisp...

Not surprisingly, somewhere along these eighteen years, Valentine's Day changed from a lover's holiday to a family day in our house. I think it may have had something to do with the birth of a certain ten year old girl. It's different, and, in some way...

Sometimes in the daily busyness of Cast Images, I forget the sheer joy that can exist in this business. I had a couple of great reminders this week, and ah, they were such treats.First, we had Chloe's school visit at Natomas PFAA (Performing and Fine A...

Public speaking? Tough. Public speaking coupled with reading your own work out loud? Way more than tough. Reading your own work, out loud, in public, and pretty much bombing? Not as hard as you would think.Huh?Last night, after work, I  changed in...

We almost got a dog last week.Lottie Mae. Found malnourished, without adequate food and water, with nine puppies to care for, this girl lucked out and ended up in a foster home through the SPCA. Her puppies went to separate foster placements, and all a...

Sometimes, taking a walk during the middle of the day is completely necessary to avoid falling asleep at my desk in a big crumpled heap, or, on another sort of day, killing someone. I'm thinking that both of those things are probably best avoided.Today...

Forty-seven. How did that happen? I certainly feel forty, maybe forty-two. But forty-seven? It just doesn't seem possible. Yet, here it is...another year past. Another chance to be so thankful for that fact that I am here, embraced by my family and fri...