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What is this blog and book about?

 This book is an exploration of self. Using some of my own experiences, and my own self questioning, I'll be asking you, the reader, to explore who you really are. To question your assumptions about your life, your opinions, your prejudices, your values.  We wear masks so much of the time. We adopt behaviors out of a perceived need to be seen as kind, or scary, or approachable, or unapproachable. We want to attract, so we wear clothes to attract, or behave in ways that we think or hope will attract. Some of us try to avoid attracting, and do what we can to hide in public, or hide away completely, because we can't tolerate others, or being seen in public. Some of us can't stand to ever speak in public, and dread the thought of having to stand in front of strangers. So our lives become dictated by what we believe we are, and by what we believe others expect of us. We find ways that we feel work for us, and we wear the clothes that project the image that we want others to beli

Who the fuck DO you think you are?

 Who the fuck do you think you are? I was asked this by a friend, jokingly, when I wore a bow tie one time. I've been playing with the idea of image for some time now, and one little adventure I got into a few years back was to wear clothes I either wouldn't be seen dead in, or clothes that were just out of character for me. I've been an actor, on and off, for decades. And the business of pretending to be someone else was always interesting to me, but it wasn't until things got really interesting for me thirty or so years ago, and I literally lost my mind, that I began to explore who I was, what my values were, and what I wanted from my life. I started to ask myself what made someone else them, and myself, me. Why other people liked the music they liked, had the tastes they had, held the opinions they held and so on. And I found it difficult to answer. I realized I had prejudices about many things, some of which I'd never even tried or encountered. It was during a