LIVING DREAMS

The last two months have been agonizingly slow and incredibly fast at the same time. Over the last 48 hours I've finally started to feel nearly normal again. The cough-cold-flu-pneumonia bug beat me up from the inside out, but honestly, it seems like a natural thing when you consider it was at the end of the year over the holidays when not much is happening and everything is happening at the same time. A la fois, as they say in French. Spent a few days in Portland, Oregon, on the tail end and worked like a horse. Spent 2 solid days in sweats drinking tea and madly crafting a crazy, silly, engaging romantic comedy. Treatment is done, so now I'm hunkering down doing movie homework and period research before embarking on the official script. I'm obsessed and doing exactly what I love. Travel. Writing. Exploring. Living. This was my second visit to Portland since August, when I had the chance to explore a town I'd never really been in before. It's got an interes

In my quest to LIVE the LIFE we all DREAM of I have the luxury of asking myself daily if I'm doing what I want to be doing and living the life I want to live. And I'm still saying YES. I've packed my bags and I'm off to the airport tomorrow, on my way to Portland to have a 5-day writing fest with Master G. We're writing a romantic comedy and it's going to be amazing. I say this only because G is a clever, witty man. And while I'm not terribly clever nor exceptionally funny, I am quite crafty and a skilled writing kind of gal. So he's offered to help me on this quest to finish my fifth screenplay -- this one with the goal to get made and to submit it all around to everyone who's willing to read it and produce it. In the midst of this, I've been invited to two weddings, and have planned two more trips. And still, I don't have much of an income coming in, so my joy won't last much longer. I don't know how I'm pulling it off