College Days – Early 1980’s I’ve loved writing since I was a child and used to dream about being the next Erma Bombeck. In high school, I discovered journalism and became the Co-Editor of my high school newspaper. Majoring in Radio/Television in college, I thought about becoming a television reporter. Once I graduated from college, I realized it was hard…
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Traveling to Visit My Daughters Some of my favorite memories are of traveling with my family. We have been lucky to have visited many wonderful places throughout the years, including: Disney World & Disneyland; Washington, DC; Beaches in Florida, Alabama and California; New York City; St. Thomas, St. Maarten, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Nassau, Bahamas during an 8 day…
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Hawaii – January 2012 Note: I’m writing this letter to myself, five years after my husband of 25 years, Thruston Stewart Doan, died suddenly of an undiagnosed Pulmonary Embolism on May 10, 2012 at 12:24 pm. I wish on the evening of May 12, 2012, when I was feeling all alone even though my house was full of family and…
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Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope in ABC’s top rated drama Scandal Photo from IMDb As I wrote about in my California Dreamin‘ blog entry, published on April 12, 2017, I spent part of February and all of March 2017 appearing as a background actor in nine different television shows filmed in the Los Angeles area, including VEEP, Speechless and…
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I’m sitting on the left in Flo Rida’s Music Video Zillionaire! During the summer of 2016, I completed a six week program in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. I took a Situation Comedy Writing class along with an Introduction to the Film and Television Industry course. Before I went to…
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