PoiPriestess

My friend Joseph has this on his FB profile and I found it so exquisite, I needed to share: throw a party… dance under the stars… fall asleep outside… dream the day away… …watch the clouds go by… bask in the shade… slip down a slide… open some windows… skip out of work… soak up [...]

Warning: this is just sort of a rant, so read at your own peril. Used to be, back in the early part of the millennium (that’s a cool thing to say, isn’t it?) that Craigslist.org was a great place to go to help my business. Today I just found out that not only do they [...]

If you’re one of those people who has been hit by the recession — fired, laid off or overworked because other’s have been — maybe you’re considering a new job. Perhaps it runs deeper though and you’re considering a new career. If that’s the case, you might want to take a look at this book [...]

It happened this afternoon. I was with three under 24 year olds — 1 under 20 — and I realized how impressed I was with the things they were saying, the awareness they had (of themselves and the world around them) and the absolute utter difference I perceived between their relationship to the world around [...]

Had a lovely practice with Erol today, super awesome practice with Nick the other night, enjoying the stuff I geeked on with Kyle, and I’m still digesting FireDrums notes. So here’s some of my thoughts on new stuff I’m playing with and older stuff I’m integrating: orbital, entering from left side — 35% success orbital, [...]

(Thanks Aunt Barbara for the reminder!) The first day of  school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to  know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a  gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find  a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with [...]

From the time I was 4-29 I played piano. I have a self published CD. I was pretty good. It was my first real passion and I thought it would be the way I’d change the world. In reality, it would have taken everything I had to actually do so with that art form. I [...]

As a professional performer who is always doing photo shoots, I am very grateful for the ways in which I’ve taken care of my face over my 40 years. Here are some of the thoughts I have on why my skin looks as good as it does for my age — aside from the generic [...]

This costume consists of an up cycled pair of pants combined with a simple wrap skirt and wrap top to match in bright pink and purple — two of my favorite colors. The pants were simple — cut the seam, serge the purple up the side and then attach the ties. The ties are made [...]

Unfortunately, I have been forgetting to take photos of what I’ve been starting with so it really doesn’t help much in terms of comparison. Fortunately, Old Navy had this shot of the dress on line. Of course, the model doesn’t have my proportions — so figure shorter and more voluptuous! One of the things I [...]

Mike Kepka did this great little mini feature on me in the Chronicle and SFGate this weekend. After reading some of the comments, I found myself outraged by the ways in which we choose our lives to be so filled with negativity. If this were the only place I saw this in my life, perhaps [...]

I’ve been reflecting on the past few months of my life and I have come up with little names for what’s been going on for me in each month and the theme of the month. I figured if I called a theme *in advance* rather than naming it as a reflection, perhaps I’d get more [...]

I call this humor, but really, this is a socio-political commentary as well! It’s a fabulous little piece. I can’t decide which line is my favorite: how come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, but when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelet? if a fetus is a person, how come the census doesn’t count them? [...]

This is the first (of hopefully many) serged costume I made and I didn’t use a regular sewing machine at all, though I did hand sew the rosette in the middle of the shirt onto the rest of it. The costume is designed to be worn in layers over a black shirt and pair of [...]