cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
What are we doing, texting these little updates? When my friend Carlos Nakar first told me about Twitter, I could not imagine anyone being interested to know I was, say, at Belle Pastry with my friend Jeffrey Crouch (for what is no doubt a God-ordained croissant--scrumptious), or in hearing my 140 character rumination on our …
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Start with a cup of coffee. Fast from coffee altogether. But pay attention, and let words mean something. To pay requires cost. Be quiet. Find the quiet in the noise. If no quiet can be found, then sleep, and dream of it. Breathe. Oxygen and its life are rarely overrated. Holding breath …
He's always been a surprise. Not that the expectation for something special wasn't there, but who this young boy I played catch with would become just wasn't on my radar. The music piece, in a generic sense, didn't surprise me; we've got singers in the family--some good ones (My uncle, closer in age to a …
"Does it matter if you have a large readership? Do you want more hits? If you do, then why? The answer to that question is very important." My friend Jenny always asks good questions. To have a moment of theatre, you need two things. An actor and an audience. Does it need to be a …
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Help me out here. The project? Focusing my blogging, narrowing my subject matter. Answering the question: what is all this blogging about? I mean the blogging in the jeffberryman.com world. If you've been reading my work for awhile, tell me what you think I'm up to. It's not that I don't know...exactly--after all, …
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