Fool's Report 2013

Dear Family and Friends,

Every year on January 6 I issue the following report. I do this on the 6th because it is Twelfth Night, which has a special place in my heart. Traditionally, the Feast of Fools would be held today and the gifts of the Magi would be exchanged. These are ideas that I like and I prefer them over traditional Christmas. It also gives me a great excuses to not write Christmas letters in the middle of crazy-ah!-time, which is what Christmas has become.

Me at the Hotel Del

Fool’s Report 2013

The house remodel was completed in April, which now feels like a million years ago, allowing me to go back to my lifelong preoccupation with not knowing what to do with myself. At the end of August my mother’s side of the family gathered in New Mexico for a week of familiness. Unfortunately I was unwell most of the time, I think it was stress related, and didn’t enjoy myself very well.

I worked on three shows this year. Mixtape , which had been running since August of 2010 on extensions, (for those of you who don’t know, pretty much everyone hired on a show is on contract. My original contract began July 29, 2010 and has been extended 2 or 3 months at a time. This makes it hard to gauge when to start looking for the next gig.) Any way, after two and a half years of mixtape I was ready to do something different. In October I got the opportunity to do the puppetry for Mistakes Were Made at Cygnet, a local theater. I enjoyed getting to participate more in the story telling aspect of theater and I got some lovely feedback. Then it was back to the tape.

In December mixtape took a brake allowing me to do props and set dressing for An American Christmas, Lamb’s Players show at the Hotel Del Coronado. Following that I was on vacation were I learned about an intriguing opportunity that I’m not going to talk about because that story belongs in next year’s report.

I’ve been thinking hard about what my next project should be and how to fill the time when I’m not doing theater work. I’ve thought for a long time that having a second job or side business would probably be the best thing for me. Maybe I will actually launch something like that this year.

Because I know some of you care about such things, I’ve made some good friends over the past couple of years but remain contentedly single. I don’t foresee a change in this arrangement.

God has blessed me richly in the midst of my struggle and I have struggled much this year. I hope to enjoy some rest in 2013.

There you go, annual newsletter thing done.

Love you all,