For something a little more up to date.
My name is Rebecca and I am an actor/writer living in Riverside, California. I have a quirky energy, though I’ve always wanted to be described as alluring. Though maybe Irish quirky is alluring? I’ll ask around.
My claims to fame thus far: a 30 second Comcast commerical in which I got to wear a white lab coat and play the expert and a one woman show I wrote and performed in my last year of theatre school.
I also ask a heck of a lot of questions, which I believe is a gift! As in—I’m genuinely and fanatically interested in people. As in—I really want to know the details. Therefore, I stare.
Currently these are the things dominating my thinking: pregnancy (mine), artistic pursuits (always), and navigating life in Riverside, CA (we are originally from Toronto, Canada, making us somewhat of a novelty here).
I have always made money teaching – teaching piano, teaching grade 4-5 French, teaching acting. Sometimes I fantasize about a career at Starbucks where the only thing I nurture is the milk I’m frothing.
I am married to a scientist/botanist named Simon. Since he works at the ‘cellular level,’ we don’t actually have a thriving garden. Disappointing for everybody! But despite not being interested in home grown lettuce, my husband is insanely good for me! He keeps me positive and motivated, calling me ‘the complete package’ and ‘hot cat’. He also makes me juice and solves all of our techie problems. I, on the other hand, make chili and do all of our dreaming.
I am working on my first play, the subject matter being influenced heavily by the title of my blog—that’s all I will say. It will be published in the very near future. I am also working on a collaborative clown show. Stay tuned for tantalizing video clips that will drive you to Regina, Saskatchewan to see the live production!
Lots of people have shaped who I am. Among them: the congregation at my dad’s church in Toronto (eclectic, multicultural, spirit filled place filled with the same kind of people), my family (dad, mom, sister, husband), my theatre school friends (wild to wild).
Some of things I love: veggies, and more specifically in this moment: broccoli salad (I come from a rich heritage of vegetable lovers—my sister calls salad her ‘comfort food’), relationship movies (the quirky independent ones, not the Hollywood blockbuster type), juicy, intimate conversation, Harold Pinter and Secret Heart by Feist, which I listen to obsessively.
Right now, I am embracing the artistic process and living in the moment – two BIG challenges for a perfectionist/ambitious/results-oriented soul like mine. Life is fun some of the time and feels hard all of the time, but I’m peeking through the human overcast and looking up from there.
This website chronicles a little bit of all that with no real pedagogical purpose. This is life in America from the perspective of a 27 year old Canadian girl insulating a gestating baby and building castles in the air…
