23 April 2013

14 March 2013

This Date in My History — Thursday, March 14, 2002  10:25pm On Tuesday, I decided to request AWS (alternate work schedule) at work and be off the 2nd Wed. of the pay period. I will use those days off to visit recording studios, ad agencies, etc. to drop off my demo and a promo item. […]

17 February 2013

This Date in My History — Saturday, 2/17/01  9:20am I had 2 interesting conversations about goal-setting that I want to include here. On Thursday, Sharon and I had lunch. At some point, we were talking about the article I sent her from the 8/00 issue of Personal Journaling titled “Write It Down, Make It Happen”. I […]

11 February 2013

22 January 2013

Being a creative person in the public eye means that bad reviews go with the territory. In narrating 11 audiobooks in 2012, I observed that: People seem more likely to leave a rating than write a review. Negative reviews seem to outnumber positive ones. In looking at the negative reviews, some people actually gave informative […]

12 January 2013

9 January 2013

6 January 2013

5 January 2013

Greetings, all, and happy new year! When I began my voice-over career in 1999, one of my friends suggested that I start a journal. She said that when Biography or Intimate Portrait wanted to highlight me in a show, I would have all of this great background material to share with them about how I […]

24 October 2012

Every job promotion I earned through my long career at the IRS was a competitive action. Today’s story is about a job I didn’t get due to my own mistakes and how those mistakes help me in my voice-over career today. Once upon a time… I started working at the IRS as a teenager. Daddy […]