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Stories, essays, and reflections from a life fully lived—one adventure, misstep, and epiphany at a time.
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Story Time: All Parts (opens the original)
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Story Time: Thirty Years Ago Today, I Got in the Car (opens the original)
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Grandma, Dolly, and the Boy I Would Become (opens the original)
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We lost Dolly yesterday.I don’t have a backstage Dolly story. I never interviewed her. Our paths never crossed at a party or on a movie set. I don’t have a photograph of the two of us that I can post with a story about how she was exactly as wonderful as everyone hoped she would be.Still, her loss feels deeply personal.Lately, I’ve been working on my memoir. This is a story I have always carried close to my heart. It is where Dolly first entered my life, and it has become a kind of love letter t
Story Time: My 2017 Summer of Yes (opens the original)
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Story Time: Martika… thy will be done (opens the original)
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I’ll keep this story relatively short because, let’s be honest, you’re probably just waiting to hear the audio at the end where I get to sing with Martika. And I can’t blame you.Share<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Er9l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2
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