What do you wish you’d known or done differently one year ago? I would have flown out to be at my mom’s side in the Covid ICU unit when she transitioned to heaven at 12:00 p.m. on May 5, 2020. I would have been there to fight for my father…

What will we create? Birthdays and anniversaries are great times to reflect. So here we are approaching the 1 year Pandemic declaration on March 11, 2020. Oh. My. God. Where did this year go? What are the long term effects from the pandemic on the planet? …

Today is Wednesday, November 4th. One week from today is Veteran’s day. Three weeks and a day from today is Thanksgiving 2020, and as of today there is still no cure for COVID. What are you feeling today? What will you focus on? Will you embrace faith that all will…

How can we thrive when everything is different now? Start with gratitude. Can you be grateful for at least three things every day? We live in a free country, and yes you have a choice. …

How to get past crisis? Focus on Now, What’s Next , Gratitude and the Serenity Prayer always helps. Abuse. Alcoholism. Abandonment. These are the three A’s that trigger my soul. When I think and/or see any of those A’s my body tenses up. My head begins to throb as loud…

AI and the SAG-AFTRA New Rules The newly negotiated SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreement addresses AI for the first time in history. Ratification by the members is almost certain and SAG-AFTRA members and the ratification vote will be concluded by the first week of December. Who agreed to the AI definitions? …

That a Wrap: The 2023 Strike Odyssey 1967 is known for the “Summer of Love.” Will 2023 be remembered for not only the “Summer of Strikes”, but the birth of a modern-day labor movement? A labor movement which not only considers and protects wages and working conditions, but how workers…

Why is there a question? LEVERAGE and POWER in negotiations. Sometimes it takes a Strike to make history. A lesson from 1960. That was then. This is now.

This summer is heating up. Forget the Summer Box Office smashes — the real smashing will happen when it comes to streaming and how to pay talent for their work. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) members overwhelmingly gave the “green light” to strike this summer.