project1979 thanks you!
Here’s a short collage of a year in review. Enjoy! http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5_S4hBK0c HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANK YOU ALL!!!! http://www.facebook.com/project1979
Happiness and the Day Planner
http://handson.provocateuse.com I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. HEATH LEDGER (b.1979) photo@carla manno for One Day on Earth … Read more
Suddenly, Susan
Faces of project1979 returns with a trailblazer! First thing on the brain today: Susan. I haven’t technically interviewed her and might not get the chance but since it is my blog I get to bend the rules Here’s a mention of her lovely self back in January: http://project1979.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/the-battles-three-women-inspire/ Susan came to Rome after I had done project1979 with … Read more
Best of project1979 playlist #1: Indianapolis
I have been back in the country for ten days and a blogpost is well overdue (thank you, Jessseeker for reminding me of this is your sweet way). A surprise hospital visit, a wedding (not my own), not knowing where to begin after three months of experiences, and preparing for a webseries pilot for project1979 … Read more
InVisible in Germany
Now in Brussels and gearing up for the performance on Saturday which will be done Salon-style for a live group here with people streaming in from around the world. Can’t wait! In the three weeks that I was in Germany my life was altered by Bluespots productions: I jumped off. Often it was scary-a little … Read more
Arrived!
Many things to say about the past ten days… Gathering no moss and at a loss for a good internet connection, I have been collecting my thoughts to share in my notebook but not yet in a nice blogpost for ya’ll. It will come! I will say this: going to the Indy Convergence and the … Read more
William Dewey on Writing: The World of Wicked Joy
Will (William) Dewey is an old college friend. We met first semester there and it stuck. I’m lucky, so lucky that he took the time to enter into this email conversation with me. He’s about to embark on a tour to present his latest book The Homeland of Pure Joy. In short, he’s awesome. Could … Read more
Sunshine and Thank You!
Thanks to the AWESOME Starstorm of the Mixed Tape Masterpiece blog, I got nominated for a Sunshine award. Yippee! It made my day. Today, as I’m soaking in the warm California sun on our beloved Earth’s Day, I thought it appropriate to reply. A big THANK YOU to Jessseeker who ever-so-kindly nominated me for the … Read more
Of a lens and love: Angelo and Jennifer Merendino
The Faces of project1979, #3 photo courtesy of Claudia Hehr Photography In August 2011, Annika Kaye, a former Wheatone (my all-female, rockin’ Wheaton College a capella group) emailed me telling me about a photographic contest her friend was participating in. I would have voted regardless but when I saw the material everything in my day, … Read more
Vikrant Lal: Tasting the Science of Love
I met Vikrant in 2003 when he arrived on my doorstep (or, more accurately, he arrived at my door after 7 flights of 400-year-old stairs) in Naples, Italy which was in full summer swing. He was on a tour of Europe with his Glee club and I hosted him and two of his friends (one of … Read more