About six weeks shy of a year ago, I sucked up everything I got in me and took an improv class.  I took an improv class because I had debilitating stage fright that was getting the better of me and butting into my personal and professional life and holding me back from doing some things that I always thought I'd be doing by the time I was this old and I figured that it was high time to get the hell over my damned self.

About six weeks shy of a year later, I am performing Live! and On Stage! in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest as part of a hand-selected Philly Improv Theater House Team in front of large(ish) audiences in a big(ish) theater.

If you would have stood in front of me on 09/09/09 and told me I'd be a part of all this- of any of this- I would have laughed.  Or cried.  Or slapped you and ran away.

Conquering your biggest fear and going far beyond what you ever imagined to set out to do is a pretty damned good feeling.  I recommend it to any of you.