INSPIRATION... WITH A SIDE OF SNARK.
Joe Guay is a writer, essayist, actor and voiceover artist who lives in California and is fixated on travel, showbiz and the ironies of life.
Remember That One Time… At Band Camp… ?
I’ve always been grateful that when I was in high school it was still years before YouTube and social media. Before digital cameras and international-transmitting-devices resided in everyone’s pockets, just waiting to capture each immature misdeed. And I was one of the prudish ones with little to worry about – such a lily-white goody-two-shoes. My “bad-boy” moments make…
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The Dangers of Listening Too Well
A few months ago, while visiting our friends Ben and Danny, I was assigned a label. It was a lovely evening. Dinner at a hip joint, then a treat of frozen yogurt during a starry night. There I was, recounting a party of theirs I’d attended in the past, trying to place a particular guest’s…
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Therapy from Around the World
I’m not usually a coffeetable-book person. It always just seems a bit pretentious and overly curated, like Martha Stewart or one of the staging experts on some HGTV show required them to be there, collecting dust, to impress guests, but never to be moved or touched. Plus, they’re heavy and cumbersome, the opposite of downsizing or living…
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Well, At Least I’m In Good Company…
About eight or nine years ago, my partner Ed was participating in some jazz-singing workshops. Mind you, he was already a GREAT singer – the man had been on Broadway. Also, singing non-stop in a three-person touring act backing up bubbly Suzanne Somers of all people, and then later donning a cowboy hat, crooning tunes at…
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The Blond Ambition Tour … Continues.
I’ve been trying to figure out when it all started, to pinpoint it. First I thought I should maybe “blame it” on my travel-writer friend, Monica. There was no denying the intrigue (and yes, enviousness!) experienced each time she jetted off to say, Fiji, expenses-paid, to review a resort or research an article for her travel-magazine employer. People…
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Death By Mental Illness … wait, what?
“We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” Wait… what? The words were deliberate. Powerful. And full of truth. It was a teachable moment, gracefully fulfilled. Earlier this month, I stopped in my tracks when Ashley and Wynonna Judd uttered these words to the public, announcing the sad, untimely death of their…
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Really, Joe? A blog?
Welcome to my first blog post…. ever. Fun fact: the first official blog post dates back to 1994… when yours truly was still IN COLLEGE, when access to a dial-up modem was almost worth bragging rights, and when Friends was literally in its first season on the air. So… I’m a little late to the…
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