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Friday Fragments #8

August 14, 2015 By Traci

Welcome to Friday Fragments. If you haven’t fragged before, Friday Fragments is a place to share those thoughts, quips, and tidbits that don’t quite make a whole post’ e.g. fragments or frags. I host every Friday and would love for you to join in. Please link up and visit other Fraggers. *** Well. it’s Friday….

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Filed Under: Acting, Blogging, Dreams, Friday Fragments, Friends, Memories Tagged With: Acting, Blogging, Friday Fragments, Friends

insecurity, blogging, acting, fear

I is For Insecurity

June 1, 2015 By Traci

With all the media centering on David Lettermans’s retirement, I saw a very interesting interview with the man of the hour. Letterman shared that even after all these years of success, he has huge insecurity. He was always ready for someone to tap him on the shoulder and ask him to leave. He fought feelings…

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Filed Under: Acting, Blogging, Fears, Slider Tagged With: Acting, Blogging, Fears

aging, dream, acting

Just Like a Play, This Life (And Yours) Has A Second Act

April 30, 2015 By Traci

Lately, I have been doing a lot of thinking about why at my purpose it and what my second (or really third) act will look like. When we’re young, everything seems possible. There is always enough time to do all the things we desire. Sometimes it is hard to believe after a certain age that those dreams…

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Filed Under: Acting, Inspiration, Slider Tagged With: Acting, Inspiration, Mommyhood, My Life

Just Tell Them

January 12, 2015 By Traci

I have heard that there is a movement to have parents avoid telling children they are talented or smart. The theory is that they won’t work as hard if they believe themselves to be these things. And I am left to wonder why does everything have to be so absolute. I am a hard worker. Anyone who knows…

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Filed Under: Beautiful, Being Famous, Childhood, Choices, Dreams, Growing Up, Mommy Wars, Mommyhood Tagged With: Acting, Childhood, Mommyhood

13 Years in the Rearview Mirror

September 11, 2014 By Traci

Most of my readers know that this journey began with the Towers falling 13 years ago. I don’t want to repeat myself here so the Reader’s Digest version is this: I was pursuing acting in New York in 2001. I was in the city that fateful morning. I couldn’t get home because the island was shut down…

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Filed Under: 9/11, Gratitude, Loss Tagged With: 9/11, Acting, Grateful Heart, Loss

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