Mark Evans Studio

  Bored of being bored. I went to bed last night looking at my schedule for the next day: A very busy 24 hours was planned out. Justin and I need to know that at least one of us can be with the baby at all times (duh; parenting), so we put everything in our shared calendar.  Each event in my calendar is color coded. Teaching and coaching is orange. Acting work is red. Baby stuff is yellow. Social life is purple etc etc etc. At a glance, my rainbow calendar looks as gay as every corporation during pride month. I was set to wake up at 7am. However our dog had other plans and needed to pee at 5.50am. So I woke up and brought him downstairs and let him into the yard and I looked at the clock and thought “I have just been gifted an extra hour of awake time”. So I didn’t go back to bed. As I type this, I am sitting on the sofa, next to the dog who of course, went back to sleep. I began reading a book that contains a quote from Marianne Williamson, which reads: ‘Children aren’t bored...

  Let your yourself bubble out I recently took our daughter to watch the Off-Broadway production of ‘The Gazillion Bubble Show’ at New World Stages. I can safely say, it’s definitely not false advertising. There were bubbles by the GAZILLION!  Our daughter is 1.5 years old and my friends’ son who also attended is 2 years old. Watching them experience this wild show was awesome - and inspiring! They literally couldn’t contain their excitement - and didn’t for a second feel they SHOULD. They were screaming and dancing and their limited vocabularies were popping out all sorts of enthusiastic gibberish.  I’m sure we’ve all witnessed a child in this sort of environment. It’s so innocent. It’s so unselfaware. It’s so unrestricted. It’s so honest and so PURE!  Trust me when I say that when they introduced LAZERS to the bubble show ten minutes before the end, my child may as well have been at a rave. She popped ALL THE WAY OFF.  Mouth open cheering, stomping her feet, s...