Zach Anner Saves My Life

Let's just say my life has been devoid of laughter for too long.  The summer was too hot.  The autumn was too nice.  Too many cookies at Christmastime.  Finally Oprah's Your OWN Show brought me Zach Anner, and the laughter medicine has been flowing ever since.  Cabin fever?  No problem, just saw Zach at Keep Austin Weird Festival.  Turning 50 in a few days? No problem, just saw Zach in the Buff with his take on Niagra Falls.  Gasoline prices too high?  No problem, we should all enjoy motorized wheel chairs thanks to Zach.  Hope we can do some wheel chair shopping together soon.

Zach Anner Rolls Over the Competition on Oprah's Your OWN Show

Love Oprah.  Love laughing with Zach.  Zach Anner is a natural and an inspirational travel show host with one great chuckle after another.  All he needs is a regular show and guest travel partners and he becomes The Amazing Race on humor steriods.  Hope I can team up with you jolly good fellow.

Also on my best life list from Your OWN Show is Dr. Tony Roach.  His all American personal triumph story is a great testimony to diligence and education.

Alicia Taylor has what America needs to wise up for the next round of better investments.  Hope she has smart ways to change greed into giving, inspiring the haves to share with the have nots, helping to balance budgets from my meager pocket book to the politicians on the state and federal levels.

I will be happy to eat any kinda cobbler Aunt Flora makes.  She is a soul food sista.  Hope she blossoms into her best telegentic coolness. 

Leigh Koechner could showcase the real Southern California style of family life and fun.

Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco could showcase beautiful food from a beautiful chef.

Eric Warner's all out enthusiasm has me wanting to check in with the chef when he weighs in.

Terey Summers has yet to show me what she can do.

Ryan O'Connor may be a better fit on the live stage than the recording studio.

Elizabeth Espinosa represents the trained and experienced professional, yet seems to be lacking that instantaneous likability.

Sunshine and Snow Shoveling

Everything is coming up sculptural due to a fine dumping of snow over the weekend.  Today the sunshine beams down on our winter wonderland.

I keep wondering about how to connect better with the haves of my community and help the gleefully, enjoyably help the have nots.  Nice to welcome back Neighbor to Neighbor into full operation after their fire recovery.

Continuing in the Neo-Renaissance style I am hoping to pick up the pace at The Renaissance International Restaurant and my Town Center Studio.  Here's to celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend 2011 style.

After an enjoyable 10 Days of Prayer at the Village Seventh-day Adventist Church with a great multi-disciplinary arts, I am in the right mode to celebrate in similar style.

Hope this sets a tone for supporting the arts first, after a greatful thank you to our Almighty God.

10 New Jobs in 10 Days

Thank God for His great creation, including the dead leaves in winter.  Cleaning up these plentiful piles has given me some work this week.  I also enjoy the other spectrum of God's creation--flower arranging, and have more roses and lilies to deliver.

I finally got to my recipe box and pulled some favorites--Bavarian Wiener Supper, Dinner Chowder, Borsh Soup, Pineapple-Nut Cookies and Florentine Manicotti--hope to prepare some of these dishes for my 50th birthday on Feb. 4 weekend at the Renaissance International Restaurant.

Also looking forward to singing with Cristina Piccardi "The Prayer" soon.

Adding some massage therapy, clutter busting, art installation, and nightly mixed media drawings for 10 Days of Prayer at Village Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Hoping for another rock garden project or two.

Here's to plenty of new work in the new year.

Somewhere Over In Job Land--10 New Jobs in 10 Days

I just listened to Taylor Mathews great remake of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and it got me right in the hopeful zone.  Let me just say to Taylor again, I hope you are the next John Denver and make some great albums and top 10-ers.

Let me just say music ASCAP 2011 and yes I do right songs and sing.

And I believe in music and the business of choosing our emotional state my the use of music.

Business these days in America?  That is in need of a great remake!  The best way I am testing is to try in 10 days to get 10 new jobs.  I live in small town midwest nice people place with world-class style Berrien Springs, Michigan.  I love my town and the people and the food and the churches and my same gender friends and my romantic memories of ladies in the past and the seniors who work harder and better than me. 

What I don't like is that this is not the best place to find work without a car, phone, or pristine reputation of spot on diplomace.  This is a good place to do community clean up, and raking leaves, lawn mowing and gardening are our big businesses--far cry from Wall Street and Hollywood.

So far I have tried today, flowers to teachers to cheer on the new year, flowers to the bank across the street, a 2011 sculpture, removing leaves from the United Methodist Church door way, a re-arrangement of "The Prayer" and representing myself as a lawyer.  Next it's innovative signage and more "Journey to Heaven" art installation.  Recipes for a 50th birthday and the Advent Times newspaper to come.