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My agent, Dale Savidge, stayed with us while he was here to view a play partially funded by Creative Gift Foundation. He's on the board and came to check it out.
09.15.08 01:17 AM - Comment(s)
From Beijing '08

This Thursday night, September 18, we'll be sharing out our trip to Asia surrounding the Beijing Olympics. Here are the stats:

22,400 miles
5 nations
4 language translations
36 days
40 audiences
1 hour to tell all about it

Thursday, September 18
6:30 free Chinese food
7ish slide show...
09.14.08 06:37 PM - Comment(s)

Here are shots from our pre-Beijing visit to Hong Kong.

To see thumbnails click here.
09.14.08 06:34 PM - Comment(s)

Here are shots from the second and third Hong Kong legs of the journey.
09.12.08 10:30 PM - Comment(s)

From our bedroom we can see the red, white & blue lights on the Empire State Building, and from our living room we can see the towering lights at Ground Zero.
09.12.08 02:29 AM - Comment(s)
From Beijing '08

The lotus is a symbol of purity in the midst of an unclean world.
09.09.08 08:07 PM - Comment(s)
From Beijing '08

This is on the Olympic plaza, quite near the Birds Nest Stadium and the Aquatic centre.  My flag says "Chung Gwo Jiao!" It translates literally to "China, refuel!" but is used like, "Go China!"  The stadium shook with "Chung Gwo Jiao!...
09.09.08 06:34 PM - Comment(s)

We were surprised that the clerk who checked us into our hotel in Manila was still there to check us out. She said they work 12 hour shifts for 250 pesos. That works out to about US$0.46 an hour. She said it's better than being unemployed.
09.08.08 06:13 PM - Comment(s)

This church, Christ Commission Fellowship, is gathering for its annual anniversay celebration. They started 24 years ago in a living room. They usually meet around Manila in smaller fellowships. None of the pastors take a salary, so that they don't attract ministers for the wrong reason.

The Chief o...

09.08.08 05:56 PM - Comment(s)

The Japanese knew all the strategic buildings (even those underground) because they'd been selling concrete to the US military on Corrigedor as early as 1905.
08.30.08 01:14 PM - Comment(s)

Our 72-year old tour guide on our catamaran to Corregidor asked God what to do with the rest of his life, and he realized that he had lived in the time of US occupation and WWII. He said, "I have a job to do," to tell people about his nation and it's connection to WWII.

"We speak Amer...

08.30.08 01:03 PM - Comment(s)

Manila, the Philippines.
08.30.08 01:01 PM - Comment(s)

Corrigedor, the Philippines.
08.30.08 12:58 PM - Comment(s)
From Beijing '08

I'm now in Hong Kong, and Joyce and Ava are safely back in New York. We had an AMAZING time.

We had our tickets ripped up just before we stepped onto the plane. Before we totally freaked out they printed new boarding passes, which put us in first class! Hurrah! That came in serious...
08.25.08 12:41 PM - Comment(s)
This was the theme song for the countdown to the Olympics, and the same composer is working on the soundtrack for our upcoming docudrama about Eric Liddell.
08.25.08 07:54 AM - Comment(s)

The fellow sitting in front of me at the Beijing Olympics was working his iPhone, so I asked him how it was working in China. He said great, and we struck up a conversation. We asked each other where the other was from, and when he heard I was from Southern Oregon he said that his friend's wife had...
08.22.08 08:36 PM - Comment(s)
I'm often asked for advice from young actors about moving to New York City. In today's New York Times there's an article about the process: Finding Your First Apartment.

Here are some other pieces of advice:

Sign up at Manhattan Plaza now. It offers subsidized housing for those w...
08.19.08 09:27 PM - Comment(s)

We ran into Marlene Velthaus, whose swim relay won gold for the Netherlands.

On our day at the Bird's Nest Stadium we sat two rows behind Dutch fans. We told them congratulations because we'd watched their team win gold in water polo while getting ready to leave early that morning. They informed us ...

08.18.08 12:22 PM - Comment(s)

This hallway at the Summer Palace in Beijing is about a half a mile long.
08.18.08 12:14 PM - Comment(s)

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