Does **it Really Happen?

I happen. You happen. We all happen for sh** happens. I believe in hard work, and I believe in just plain luck. I believe in the combination of the two, and I believe in them separately. Sometimes I need to work just for the sake of working – not out of any need for success (yeah, right). Sometimes I get lucky and $54 comes flying out of the change machine after I’ve inserted my one dollar bill. Sometimes I work hard and I get lucky exactly because of that – I worked hard. Sometimes I work my ass off and nothing good comes from it – and so you have to believe (or if you can’t believe – you have to think) that the doing of the work is good in itself. And you do believe that – at times. And then you have those moments where you feel tired and cynical. But then that’s what you are: tired and cynical. And who wants that on their epitaph? So you get passed that. Yet again. After 6,983 of those moments. And you still make brand new decisions about yourself. You decide something. For yourself, if only just for yourself, you become “the Decider”. It’s a beautiful thing to be that for yourself.

I have decided I am going to be a screenwriter. In the past, I have also decided to become Mother Theresa, a dictator of a small country, an ice cream tasting tester (say that 3 times real fast), and a computer game character (I was actually one of those – guess which one? Check out my profile/professional experience).

This will be more difficult. But it seems to be a natural progression. I have been writing my whole life and been a movie buff, a book buff, a buff buff, an in-the-buff buff, even a Buffy the Vampire Slayer buff. I love Puff the Magic Dragon (click on this link for Peter, Paul and Mary’s most recent, delightful live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OiOlnoyljk), which also makes me a Puff Buff. I am small, but no powder puff, which makes me not at all a powder puff buff.

All right, that’s enough of the buff stuff. We’ve all had enough. Enough! Jesus, I’m getting on my nerves…

Thank you for having me with you here….I have been reading dozens of blogs, interviews and profiles, and I have enjoyed them, and learned so much from them. Thank you to those of you who have emailed me and shared a bit of yourself.

Very sincerely, Leslie (oh yeah, it’s my blog – I don’t need to sign off so politely… but I will – because it looks nice and I like to)