I Spit in the Wind...

Crap!!! A couple hours after posting my “community property....success is the best revenge” diss on my ex-husband and his “Internet Ho” (now his wife) hook-up, I got a notice in the mail from the IRS!

Good Christians & Karma Believers might see that as righteous come-uppance for my not being more loving & forgiving. To which I say, if that’s the case, then why aren’t my adulterous ex and his “thou shalt not covet/thou shalt not steal”-transgressing bitch covered in warts?

Feeling worthy of grace and absolution for doing the Tammy Wynette-thing and “standing by my man” for as long as I did, I repent not. But if that isn’t good enough, Dear Lord...then bring on the locusts.

Btw, here are some of the folks who have stood by ME!

Welcome to My World...

Edge of Night head writer, Henry Slesar, once said to me, “I love making you suffer, because you suffer so well.”

And oh, how I suffered!

As feisty, young attorney, “DiDi Bannister” -- which I played on that ABC soap opera from 1981 till it went off the air in 1985 -- I endured the tribulations of a torrid love triangle with police detective “Calvin Stoner” & his wife, “Starr;” was brainwashed and carted off to an insane asylum in a straight-jacket; held hostage at knife-point; reunited with my estranged brother only to then have to help him beat a murder rap… and on and on…and on.

My real life had its share of drama, as well...

For starters, one of my co-workers was charged with murder! (O.J. Simpson, whose wife I played on the HBO series, FIRST & 10). Then another one suffered a fatal heart attack on the job right in front of me (Redd Foxx, whose daughter I played on the CBS sitcom, The Royal Family.)

Then, on a gig not long after that, I experienced a severe allergic reaction which required me to take steroids on a regular basis if I wanted to keep my job. (A response to the facial prosthetics used to simulate the gruesome-looking "Martin's Syndrome" (Named best "Bad Storyline" that year by SOAP OPERA WEEKLY!) on the NBC soap, Sunset Beach.

Even more drama ensued when I turned forty-five.

For starters, my acting career was "downsized" due to a case of early-onset ageism (which hits most women in Hollywood when they turn forty or so), causing me to lose my health insurance. Shortly thereafter I became an empty-nester, when my last kid went off to college and my husband flew the coop with an ex-girlfriend he hooked up with on the Internet.* (I know, it's such a cliche.)

Along the way, my dad died and my mother was diagnosed with cancer and suffered a stroke, requiring me to move two thousand miles across-country to become her caregiver. Sadly, she died just nine months later.

Except for the requisite "kidnapped baby" storyline, you might say that my life has been a soap opera.

Then again, as "Life" goes, I think that's pretty much the norm.

For the record, as a certified hypnotherapist, I happen to have a credential in “advice-giving,” but I don’t plan on doling out too much advice here...preferring, instead, to engage in more of a "heal myself" kinda conversation.

To give you some background...

When I started my practice in 2003, I saw a pattern of mid-life depression in women who'd been “hypnotized” by the media into believing that they lost value as they got older. I even bought into that idea, myself.

But when I started working with these women and giving them positive suggestions under hypnosis about what was possible in their lives, my own beliefs began to change as well -- so much so that it eventually made it impossible for me to keep “talking the talk” without “walking my walk!”

So, I discontinued my practice and resumed my acting and writing careers with a vengeance. And now I'm getting ready to open Off-Broadway in "MOIST!" (www.moistonstage.com) -- a show I co-wrote, which celebrates the sexual vibrancy, vitality and viability of the "seasoned" women!!! And oh, baby, I'm not just walkin' my talk, I'm struttin' it!!!

...which brings me to my next "walk your talk" conundrum.

What the hell am I going to do about my sex life?

Stay tuned...

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* For the record, I'm working my ass off for "MOIST!" to be a HUGE f------ financial bonanza.

I was married in California, a community property state...but post-divorce, everything I make off this show is ALL MINE!!!

Aaaaahhh, yes, success is the best revenge!

"On with the show!!!" (Just click below...)