12th September 2020

Still Here

To still be here means having survived and endured threats inward and outward, internal and external. To still be here may mean having broken and remade yourself into a new shape that is entirely your own, and could both feel like still being here and no longer being here at the same time. To still be here is not guaranteed.

28th August 2020

Am I in your way?

It occurred to me I could crush her tiny body with one book...

23rd July 2020

.commons.

Missional Wisdom Foundation • 25th March 2020

"It's Not Supposed To Be This Way"

8th December 2019

.waiting for (god)ot.

14th August 2019

Imagining More (MWF)

Sometimes true mutuality requires us not to make room for other postures, but to physically take the posture of another, so that we can indicate our vulnerability and our welcome to them.

24th July 2019

at the same table

Missional Wisdom Foundation • 27th March 2019

Disjointed (Wisdom for the Way)

Through processes of struggle and change, I have found myself unrecognizable, having to get reacquainted with who I am now in this season, in this new skin, within my whole story. I have found myself in the process of both discovering my True self and also collaborating and improvising within community and alongside God, incorporating who I was with who I’m becoming as I live and create a new story.

Dallas Comedy House • 14th March 2019

Improvisationally Ever After

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was led to believe that her voice wasn’t important.

Dallas Comedy House • 25th February 2019

We were always improvising

'I didn’t expect this' and 'Now what' are precisely the spaces where improv arrives again and again. As improvisers, we’re never expecting this; we arrive to the unexpected. We willingly take it on, delight in it, craft with it. What is mishap to the grief-stricken is the method of the improviser.

Dallas Comedy House • 20th February 2019

Unmasking

"your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

Dallas Comedy House • 11th February 2019

Look at Me

Look at me. No glance. She’s notoriously defiant. I wait. Look at me. She continues ignoring me, eyes fixated on the world around her. Scout, look at me. She gazes up and begins to lick my nose.

Dallas Comedy House • 5th February 2019

Plotlines and Pilgrimage

Improv teaches that it’s not necessarily where we end up that matters the most, but that how we go will determine where we arrive, and who we become.

Dallas Comedy House • 29th January 2019

Yes, and flood waters

We bring our ideas, our creativity, and our skill of working together; we create in the midst of absence and space. As it does in the Okavango, life floods abundantly onto the improv stage.

Dallas Comedy House • 12th December 2018

Soulmates and Scene Partners

‘Do you want a puppy?’ A dreaded, hipster couple had found two abandoned puppies wandering the streets; the man held a sleeping, snuggly, tiny beige and chestnut bundle. ‘No, I can’t,’ entering the bathroom. But when I emerged, without hesitation I scooped Riley up in my arms and walked back to the hookah bar to rejoin my group. ‘YES.’

Dallas Comedy House • 27th November 2018

Without A Shield

They open up, they drop their shields, they know that no matter the tears, flaws, or struggle moments, their vulnerability is a beautiful and human thing.

Dallas Comedy House • 12th November 2018

Supporting the Scene

Whether we are tapping out, walking on, or simply creating the scene, ‘yes, and’ wisdom encourages us to use our gifts, strengths, and ideas for the sake of ‘serving the scene’, rather than merely serving ourselves.

Dallas Comedy House • 23rd October 2018

Follow Your Feet

Our teachers encourage us: follow your feet. They seem to have a wisdom of their own; we lurch forward as if about to fall off a ledge. Coming up to our toes and then back down to our heels, something within us had an idea...

Dallas Comedy House • 8th October 2018

The Importance of And

I believe ‘yes, and’ is the best act of support and revolution I have ever encountered.

Dallas Comedy House • 28th September 2018

The Culture of No

Such a terribly unpleasant word to any improviser. Even worse, when the no isn’t said, but it is felt.