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We had a WONDERFUL Christmastime!
12.30.09 12:19 AM - Comment(s)

I've been invited to perform Beyond the Chariots in Vancouver during the Winter Olympics through More than Gold. During the 2008 Olympics I got to perform in Beijing alongside world-record-breaking Olympic champion Madeline Manning Mims, who coined the phrase "More than Gold," so this for...
12.25.09 12:02 PM - Comment(s)

12.24.09 07:26 PM - Comment(s)

Joyce and I drove from Denver, where we're celebrating our Lord's birth with her family, to Nebraska to interview Tad Nagaki, one of seven paratroopers who liberated the internment camp where Eric Liddell died. Tad will be 90 years old next month and is still farming!

We connected with him through...
12.23.09 06:09 PM - Comment(s)

After our amazing interview with World War II veteran Tad Nagaki we stayed, appropriately enough, at The Patriot Inn: www.BBC.Net/~patriotinn.
12.22.09 03:36 PM - Comment(s)

This Christmas Diorama has been telling the Story of God's love for the world for 54 years.
12.22.09 03:29 PM - Comment(s)
We're driving through Nebraska to interview Tad Nagaki, the last surviving member of the seven-man paratrooper team that liberated 1,500 Allied civilians from untold Japanese guards after their emperor surrendered, ending World War II. The internment camp they liberated had held Eric Liddell, featu...
12.21.09 04:12 PM - Comment(s)
My friend, who is a scientist, gave me permission to share this here...


Remember what the Lord has done!
Merry Christmas!

love, JoAnn


12.19.09 04:15 PM - Comment(s)

I had someone snap this photo at a MasterMedia International event. Another MWF (www.MasterWorksFestival.org) faculty member, George Merritt, had already left.

12.16.09 05:07 PM - Comment(s)
Here's a photo I hadn't posted from our trip to New Zealand, where I taught and performed in Auckland.

We stopped at a glass blowing factory. The hottest kiln heats the lava to 1200 degrees C or 2192 degrees F.
12.16.09 05:07 PM - Comment(s)

We're off for Denver, where we'll celebrate Christmas with Joyce's family.
12.16.09 09:48 AM - Comment(s)
I met with a young actor from LA who took your Sociodrama workshop at the CITA (CITA.org) conference at Azusa Pacific with me. We talked at length about how profitable that was for us. I use what I learned from you in my classes at our local high school, so your influence continues!

When CITA ask...
12.15.09 05:18 PM - Comment(s)

From my friend, Lauren Yarger, who reviews Broadway plays from a Christian perspective ( http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com):
Subject: picking your brains Hi! I am researching a project and am gathering opinions about which Christian vocal artist people would most like to see star in a regul...
12.11.09 06:19 PM - Comment(s)
Just heard celebs tell memories of Tennessee Williams. My favorite was when he went to the debut of one of his films. The woman asked him where he was from (wanting to know what studio), and he said, "Mississippi." She called him a wise guy and turned him away until she heard Eli Wallach ...
12.10.09 01:07 AM - Comment(s)
I just auditioned for an upcoming film, A Christmas Snow, with two other MasterWorks faculty members: Mac Nelson and Patricia Mauceri.

Here are links to our auditions, which you can view when signed in to Facebook:

Patricia Mauceri as Kathleen's Mother
Mac Nelson as Sam
Rich Swingle as Martin
Rich Swi...
12.02.09 10:25 PM - Comment(s)

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