At La Peña

The show was pretty darned good....I loved performing with my classmates at La Peña in Berkeley this afternoon.

I was nervous. I wondered whether or not I was gonna have a heart attack prior to going on. I was put on the program and told last-minute that I'd follow Paula, a well-practiced beautiful African American from Queens, with her extraordinary story, based on a published one, of slaves in the cotton fields who remembered they could fly! We were right after intermission and introduced as a group of three from Kirk's intermediate class. And then I was up and I was there and in the zone and people were reacting to all the specifics of my Paris love nest tale, and in 5 minutes it was over and then at break everyone I knew and some I didn't came up to congratulate me, and hug me and massage me and say I was fabulous, my voice fantastic, and this story brilliant.

It doesn't get much better than this ...in this place... at this time. And there will be a DVD to share.