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A live music venue in someone's house? You betcha! That's how they do community here in Sacramento. I'll open the show at Theater 5150 Keane Drive in Sacramento with some comedy and introduce Boot Juice, a seven-piece "cosmic rock" band, on March 21, 2025. Doors open at 7 pm. Show starts at 8 pm. Tickets …
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Fall’s almost here, but you’d never know it because it’s freaking 100 degrees here in Central Valley, CA. In the “What did you do this summer” category, I told a story of the worst thing that’s ever happened to me on a podcast called The Secret Room.Not on your worst day would you ever do this …
Hello there! I’m not sure if you’d remember me or not. You signed up for my blog a long time ago. Since then, I’m done with cancer, we moved to California for jobs, and our kids are in college. So here I am, longing to connect with everyone who followed this blog. I’m ready to …
Underground. That's what happened. I went underground. Maybe it's the super-public way I dealt with cancer. Or maybe it's just standard PTSD after going through such an ordeal, but I plummeted straight down into eighth-grade-level depression. That combined with near constant anxiety attacks shut me down. I'm coming around, after going to the doctor and …
The first time I saw Heather Boland, she was tearing up the elliptical at the gym wearing a scarf to cover her bald head courtesy of cancer treatment. I didn’t know Heather yet, but had heard she was battling cancer. A quick burst of an inhale followed by sadness and “Oh God, her kids …
You know that day when everything sets you off? That's been the last few days for me. The kids left rotting apples in my freshly cleaned car, then complained Ew, it stinks in here. We tried to take the kids for a fun day at a water park, but had to turn around when one …
When I was hopped up on steroids during chemo, I stayed up all night and wrote this show. Now it's a reality - my first one-woman show with poorly sung parody songs and other surprises. Hope to see you there! THREE POSITIVES: 1- Cancer sucks. Let's make fun of it. 2- Look at all the …
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Okay, I'm not talking hair here. I'm talking deadlines. And I'm one of those people who hits deadlines for a living. But this one is so unfair. It snuck up on me and everyone else in the free world. Can't we just put a filler week in there? Christmas cards? Not happening. Gifts arriving on …
See that dude on the left, he's my dad. The other man is Brian's dad. There they are watching Livvie pop up from behind a sofa at Amelie's in Charlotte, NC, while Steven shakes his head in "grow up already mode" like he's 30. Both gdads have been hugely supportive of us, when we started …
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It’s Tribute Thursday, ya’ll. That’s when I try to remind you that there are amazing people in the world. Meet the LaBorde Famille! I say famille because they’re French. When we were a new family at Abernethy Elementary, I used to notice Shonda dropping her son Josson off at Steven’s first grade class with a …
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