Wednesday, November 20, 2013

SpitFire Poetry/Nacho Pizza/ East Lansing

Performing always gives me a rush!  I love being on stage just as much as I love writing. But between juggling 5 kids, writing and managing a household I am often times too exhausted to doll myself up to get on stage!  By the remote chance that I have energy to perform who has the time or free brain cells to memorize poetry along side keeping track of dentist appointments and oil changes?

So tonight was a treat for me!

Tonight I was the feature poet at SpitFire Poetry in East Lansing, hosted by Logic and Ethereal at a cozy art gallery, Metrospace.  The show was great, tons of positive energy, wonderful poetry and an amazing pizza spot next door called Georgio's, which served a delicious nacho pizza (East Lansing has so many cool spots to get good food), truly one of the highlights of my night. Not only was I given the opportunity to present my work, but I was also blessed with the ability to experience new artists, network and build with creative minds. Thanks to the hosts for inviting me and displaying such genuine hospitality and my sincerest appreciation to all the supporters who came out to the show, the crowd was full off love and that alone makes what I do worth it!

Monday, November 11, 2013

It was a cold and dreary day, where nothing went as planned...lol

11/11/13 It was a cold and dreary day...and as lame and cliche' as it sounds that is exactly what type of day it was.  I woke up with a weird anxious energy, but I was on schedule for once (I am so slow!) so I should have known the day had surprises in store!  If I wasn't totally against telling ALL of my business on the internet I would go into more detail about those surprises.  Needless to say nothing went as planned!  The apex of my insane day was my 5 minute tear filled commentary in the middle of a performance hosted by the International Student Organization at the University of Michigan-Flint (my manager is gonna be mad because I didn't tell her about the performance but it was a last minute, i'm a stage junkie!)...I don't know what moved me but I couldn't shut up (a'la Lauryn Hill and Kanye West just on a waaaaaaaay smaller scale)!  But it was all truth...and it was cleansing, and it needed to be heard...then it was right back home to feed the 12 kids that were at my house while trying to finish some work that had an 11pm deadline!  And now I am sitting here awake, doing yoga at 2am, trying to use some of this electric, pure energy before it is all gone!!!

...but i'm sure as soon as I get productive I will either get sleepy or the baby will wake up!!! #MyLife