Larry Oskin Fine Art Photographer

Celebrate Beauty With Fine Art!

Art Beautique Offers Inspirational Artwork
Created Expressly For Homes, Offices, Salons, Spas & Medical Centers

There now is a beautiful and affordable new opportunity to decorate your home or office with inspirational and customized Art Beautique images! Everyone needs to use artwork and décor to create a beautifully exciting environment.

Art Beautique Collections: Art Beautique was launched by fine art photographer, Larry Oskin. Art Beautique is a virtual art gallery servicing homes, offices, spas, salons and medical centers. The Art Beautique Collection celebrates the beauty of life. Some of the various collections include images from beautycare, glamour, nature, flowers, animals, landscapes and world capitals.

Artist ~ Larry Oskin: Originally from Buffalo, New York, Oskin has exhibited his original limited edition professional artwork in private art galleries and city museums across the USA, Canada and the world. His accomplishments include exhibiting at the famous Albright-Knox Art Gallery, considered one of the ten best modern art museums in the world. He continues to regularly exhibit his fine art collections within retail art galleries.

While Oskin now specializes in the professional beauty, salon, spa and medical industries, Oskin was Director of Marketing for Circle Fine Art earlier in his career. Circle Fine Art was respected as the world’s largest fine art publisher and art gallery chain, where he provided marketing for Peter Max, Erté, Yaacov Agam, Norman Rockwell, LeRoy Neiman, Marcel Mouley, Walt Disney Studios and many internationally respected artists. Before founding Marketing Solutions, he was formerly a Vice President of Marketing at Regis Corporation and Creative Hairdressers / The Hair Cuttery, two internationally respected beautycare salon chain companies.

Photo Impressionism: The Art Beautique collection celebrates the special inspirations of beauty Oskin has created a distinctive style sharing unique photographic art that often appears to be more like an impressionist painting, than a typical fine art photograph. Oskin shares, “My Art Beautique artwork is very stylized. I love to inspire others through bright, bold and vivid imagery that shares a sense of emotion, tranquility and relaxation. Each image is digitally enhanced to balance Oskin’s strong sense of color, layout and design. Through the fine art of digital photography, we are able to share what we can see, sense and feel, yet not touch! I believe that fine art photography remains one of our best artistic forms of creative media and visual expression. With fine art photography, we are able to share the instant of a beautiful sunrise, sunset and
cloud, which may only otherwise be a mere quick memory. With fine art photography, we are able to enjoy the memory of smiles, happiness, sorrow, love, warmth, friendship, beauty and spirit as well as to remember the unique joy we may have experienced from a complete array of emotions. A picture may only be worth 1000 words, while little else will compare when you are able to capture any special moment in time!”

The Art Beautique Collection celebrates the beauty of women, glamour, nature, flowers, animals, cityscapes and world capitals. The Art Beautique Collection is highlighted with original posterized abstract photographs and photographically enhanced canvas artwork. Oskin shares, “I am truly inspired by beauty. One of my primary goals remains to help women look great and to feel better about themselves while improving their self-respect, image, credibility and pride.”

Create Customized Artwork For Your Home Or Office! While hundreds of original fine art images by Larry Oskin are available, Art Beautique also offers you customized opportunities to create very special original artwork for your home or office while facilitating your own special photography sessions. Whether you share your own professional digital photography images or bring Oskin into your home and business; the opportunities for customized artwork are limitless.

Marketing Solutions: Oskin is also owner of Marketing Solutions as a full-service marketing, advertising, graphic design, photography and PR agency specializing in the professional beauty, salon, spa, health, wellness and medical industries – having worked with professional beautycare companies from across the globe. At Marketing Solutions, Oskin and his team create professional full-service marketing strategies with creative advertising, graphic design and photography services.

Inspired By Beauty! Visit Art Beautique at www.ArtBeautique.com. Art Beautique artwork is available in canvas prints as well as “matted presentations, suitable for framing. A second website offers you images in a poster format at http://larry-oskin.artistwebsites.com/galleries.html. For more information, contact Larry Oskin at 703-934-5495 and LOskin@MktgSols.com. For more information on Marketing Solutions, call 703-359-6000 or visit www.MktgSols.com.

Sherrie Clark - Small Voices Silenced

The Foster Care Machine: Well-Oiled or Broken Down

The Foster Care Machine: Well-Oiled or Broken Down?

By Sherrie Clark

The foster care system gets a lot of bad publicity. Debatable is whether its reputation is warranted and whether what you read and hear is factual or an over exaggeration. What isn’t debatable is that the foster care system does exist, that it’s alive and well, and that it’s a much bigger machine than given credit.

So, let’s examine the different components of this machine. From what I’ve seen, the parts of the machine are the workers. The energy that generates it is the law, some of which are subjectively construed based on a worker’s agenda. Although we would hope it would be all about following the letter of the law, it doesn’t always happen that way. As a result, that part becomes faulty.  

A corrupt part, of course, causes a machine to become dysfunctional. A prudent person would replace that part lest the whole machine breaks down. Not so with this machine. It keeps the corrupt part and continues operations, or so it seems.

All along the way, families are inserted into this machine to be “fixed.” If these items are placed without considering balance, it could cause the machine to wobble. After awhile, the wobbling causes the gears to be stripped, and the machine stalls. The items are removed, still in the same condition as when first placed into this machine. They are then declared as they should be instead of how they really are. And you’re left with thinking, well, what about the children?

Now we have an issue of reality. Just saying something is fixed doesn’t make it true, especially if the tool that was intended to fix it breaks down. Taking a child from a home for a period of time—and sometimes that period can be quite lengthy—and then returning that same child into a situation that’s been declared as it should be instead of how it really is has the potential to lead to calamity.

When a child is removed from a home, his or her parents or caregivers are given twelve months to complete the tasks given in a case plan. These are supposed to be customized based on what it was that caused them to be caught in the foster care system’s web.

But fear not! The system works hard, and I mean it works hard to return a child back to a home. In many cases, the real motto appears to be “Ready or not, here they come.” The system chants “reunification, reunification” as the square peg is forced…crammed into the round hole. This is especially true for those who have bought into the pervasive apathy that’s more the rule than the exception. In reality, this reprehensible indifference toward the welfare of a child is more of a cancer to its ideological mantra of “in the best interest of a child.”

What’s ironic is that the foster care system was created for children, but somewhere along the way, these same children have somehow managed to be reduced to by-products of a system gone awry. What has topped the priority list appears to be power aspirations and a healthy financial bottom line. And we’re left questioning, what about the children?

I’m sure that many of you are thinking that I must be a bitter, former client of the foster care system, and that I’m venting my frustrations. Well, yes and no. I was once a foster parent who unwittingly got inducted into this secret society. And the experience provided quite an education, one that you can’t get from any book, any training class, or from the latest statistics. We related to Alice and what she must have felt like after falling down the rabbit hole and into the unique world of Wonderland. In our unique world, though, children appeared to be an expendable commodity. And we were left feeling perplexed and asking, but what about the children?

So my origin of complaint isn’t from anger that evolved from pain but from a righteous anger that erupted from the injustices I personally witnessed. I once rode the mad merry-go-round of dysfunction where fear led to secrecy which led to dysfunction which led to fear which led to secrecy and so on. But I jumped off a long time ago, yet I see that the very things that drove me away are still very integrated in the engine that propels the system.

You may ask, “What things?” Well, how much time do you have? Suffice it to say that the misinterpretations of laws initially designed to protect children continues status quo. Let’s say that what’s actually in the best interest of a child is not necessarily what’s pursued in all cases. These are only a few issues (and don’t even get me started on the emotional roller-coaster ride they make foster parents suffer through).

What I see as the crux of the system’s problem are the actions by many of this society’s members that adhere to the very definition of corruption: “impairment of integrity; a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct” (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary). And we’re left frustrated, still wanting to know—what about the children?

My complaint isn’t so much against the system; in some cases, it has worked and done the job it was meant to do. My complaint isn’t against reunification with parents who once had their children removed from their custody; reunifying a child to parents who have worked hard to remedy their situation has got to be one of the most gratifying experiences for the system. No, my complaint goes much, much deeper. I take issue with any entity, person, or institution that insists on returning vulnerable and innocent children to those who either can’t change or refuse to change or simply haven’t finished changing. That’s the monster. When a system turns a blind eye to atrocious actions just to get another “reunification” on their record and just to save a few bucks at the cost of a child, it is in dire need of its own rehabilitation. And we’re left demanding, what about the children?

But will the system ever fess up to its shortcomings? My guess would be no, not until society has been made aware of what this system is capable of doing for the sake of anything but the child. And that’s what I hope I’ve initiated in my recently released, award-winning book Small Voices Silenced. Although this true story doesn’t lash out at the system as harshly as this article, it does expose some of the most horrid practices among foster care agencies. Although it includes all the components of a juicy fiction novel, remembering that it is a true story will deliver an extra emotional punch that can shake readers to their core.

And hopefully justice will eventually prevail, and we’ll come to a satisfying conclusion—that the world of foster care has returned to its roots of great intentions, where what’s in the best interest of a child once again takes priority.

Lesley Phillips - The Midas Tree

Lesley Phillips - Reclaim the Creator Within

Children love to imagine. This applies whether its boys playing soldiers, little girls being Arabian princesses or a mixed group pretending to work in an animal hospital and tending to sick animals.

They really believe they are there!

Whatever the game the common elements are they visualize a story, characters and events and then project these imaginings onto their toys or play act the characters and events with each other.

 I remember playing pretend when I was a little girl. I could see myself as a nurse in a hospital or a pilot flying a plane; my brother became the lion tamer or the bus driver and our toys came alive with our visions.

Then they learn to forget 

As children grow older they may hear from their parents that school work is more important than playing. They learn that it is their logical mind and not their brilliant imagination that will get them ahead in life, as this will get them a job and the material things they need to survive.

So they all grow up and become doctors, lawyers and bankers. Those who retain their ability to imagine may become writers, artists, actors and yet they may still be taught to approach this from an intellectual rather than playful perspective.

What a limited way of operating this is.

Everyone can benefit from having a fertile imagination. In fact there is a spiritual law that states this is how we create our reality. Indeed this is what children are doing when they play and imagine; they are practicing creating their reality.

Most adults forget how to do this because they adopt commonly held beliefs about life that limit their creativity. Most of these beliefs come from the most influential people in our lives – our parents.

A boy may have a passion for food and want to be a chef, but his parents are lawyers and so he does what is expected so he can participate in the family business. A girl may have the potential to be a great opera singer, but her mother says she has a dreadful voice; now she no longer believes in her dream.

 How can we let go of these limits? 

 A great way to recapture the creative flow is through meditation. Meditation allows you to let go of concepts that do not serve your highest good. It allows you to clear all the messages from the past that may not be true for you. Then you can start to see yourself and what you want clearly.

This is how I came to write The Midas Tree. Firstly meditation allowed me to transform myself from a Ph.D. scientist and biotech business executive to a spiritual counselor and author.

Secondly, meditation helped me get clear so my creative channels were open to receive the spiritual information in the book.

Finally the book, which teaches meditation through a fairy tale adventure, will hopefully help children remember who they really are - powerful beings with unlimited creativity.

Dr. Lesley Phillips is a speaker, author, workshop leader, spiritual and meditation teacher based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her book “The Midas Tree,” a spiritual adventure story for children of all ages is available on Amazon as a paperback or e-book. She can be reached at:- www.themidastree.com Lesley@themidastree.com http://www.facebook.com/themidastree Twitter: @DrLesleyP www.drlesleyphillips.com http://www.facebook.com/drlesleyphillips

Nick Green - Dreaming of Dolphins

Dreaming of Dolphins

At school I was voted the guy least likely to tear off his clothes and run into the sea. That’s not actually true. But it could be. I don’t do crazy impulses. I’m the man who holds up the coffee shop queue before ordering the same latte as ever. I use SatNav. On the train. You certainly wouldn’t catch me braving the English Channel in October, without so much as a towel to hand. And yet, on one autumn afternoon several years ago, I did. And I’m still trying to understand why.

My wife and I were in Lyme Regis, in Dorset, walking along the sea front. We saw a commotion in the water. Amidst a group of swimmers, something dark kept bobbing up. We saw a fin. It was like a scene from Jaws, except the screams weren’t terror but delight. Unbelievably, it was a dolphin.

My first fear was that the creature must be in distress, to be so close to the beach. But the dolphin was clearly revelling in the attention, scooting from one bunch of kids to another, splashing them, letting itself be stroked, and generally showing off.

At that moment I realised that I’d probably never have this chance again. To swim with dolphins is often held up to be one of life’s great experiences. Some polls have even voted it ‘the number one thing to do before you die’. And this wasn’t some captive dolphin in a pool, or a purchased, pre-packaged ‘experience’. This was the real deal, a wild bottlenose dolphin, an utterly random stroke of fortune, quite literally out of the blue. And I didn’t have any swimming things.

So no-one was more astonished than me when, a minute later, I was splashing out into the cold water towards the dolphin. (Note to Dorset police: I kept my shorts on). The next ten minutes was like being a kid again. What I remember most vividly is the creature’s speed, melting underwater to reappear far away, almost at the same instant. Its skin felt wonderfully strange to the touch, like a living bar of soap, though when I tentatively grasped its fin to see if it might tow me along like Flipper, it rolled over with a glare as if to say, ‘I don’t do tricks.’ It occurred to me then that this animal, with its size and power and huge jaws, could easily have killed any one of us human beings in seconds – without meaning to, or even noticing. Yet there we were, children and adults all, prepared to risk our literal necks just for the sake of being close to a dolphin.

Why? What possessed me? For a long time afterwards I struggled to answer that question. Somehow, these efforts resulted in a book. The Storm Bottle is a tale of humans and dolphins, an adventure story as full of thrills and perils and fantasy as my other books (The Cat Kin Trilogy), but drawing for inspiration on that first very real experience. In the story, a boy name Michael nearly drowns when he tries to swim with a dolphin – and then he discovers what it’s like to be one. The action unfolds in Bermuda and its surrounding ocean, where we learn that it is not just humans who have legends about that lonely archipelago. And maybe we come a little closer to answering that tantalising question: why is swimming with dolphins the number one thing to do before you die?

The Storm Bottle by Nick Green is available from Amazon. To view the trailer, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBunMF3BTys

NICK GREEN

www.nickgreenbooks.webeden.co.uk

Nick Green - The Bottle Storm

Trey Carland - Seekers Guide by talkstorytv

Trey Carland- Seekers Guide

Memories

In the interview with Julia I touched on the importance of the present moment in finding the peace that we all desire.  There are many different ways in which one can “find” the present moment, which is the only moment there really is.  One of the chapters in the book talks about the use of the past to access the present moment, which seems contradictory, but I have found it very effective.  Though the book covers several other teachings and pointers that I have found effective, I have decided to share that chapter because I feel like it is one of the key pointers that can be readily picked up by everyone.  You are welcome to read more about me and access my blog on my website (http://www.treycarland.com).  I hope you enjoy :)

Chapter 45 - Memories

I know by now you are well familiar with the idea that the present moment is all there ever is, has been or will be, but I wanted to use memories as an example of how one can touch that which is always present.  Think back to your earliest memory.  Visualize it as if you are reliving it.  For me this was when I was two years old.  My mom was going into the hospital to give birth to my brother.  I was in the car with my uncle Bill and I had a can of peanuts between my legs.  As we were pulling away I spilled the peanuts between my legs.  As I was trying to pull them out from under me I realized that they had slid so far up under me that I couldn’t reach them.  So I lifted my butt up and as I did the peanuts went sliding back under the seat and into the floor board (the back of the seat had a gap where it met the bottom seat).  I also remember my uncle being a bit flustered by this.

When I think back on this memory, I look at what has not changed since then.  The one who witnessed it all happen is the same one who is witnessing these words being typed on a screen.  It is the same “I” that has witnessed all of my life situations and will continue to witness all of my life situations.  It has not changed through out my entire life.  My physical body has changed, my thoughts and ideas have changed, my likes and dislikes have changed; but that “I” that has witnessed it all has not changed.  That is the ever present awareness of what goes on in daily life.  Everything we experience happens in the space of that awareness, which is untouched by the mental interpretations of those experiences.  The mind labels, judges and learns from these experiences, but the awareness behind it all has no stake in the outcome.  It is simply here.

When you look back on any of your past experiences you are “seeing” them Now from that same awareness.  Focusing your attention on that awareness is how you can “see” that which you really are, underneath the thoughts and mental labels.  Asking yourself, “Who am I?” or “Who is this “I” that is witnessing all of these things happen (past or present)?” is a very effective way of turning your awareness back on itself, or becoming aware of awareness.

This awareness, which is the only thing about us that is real, is not ours alone.  In fact, that awareness is what we all have in common.  We are all that same ever present awareness beyond thought.  That is what makes us all one.

Once you have become aware of your own awareness you can then look at others with that awareness and see them as that same awareness.  They may look and act differently, have different life experiences, but deep down they are nothing more than that same pure awareness.  You can, in effect, look through the eyes of another and see that there is a background of awareness behind everything they say, do and see.

It’s from this space of recognizing all as awareness where true compassion arises.  Ultimately there is no difference between me and you.  We are all just conscious awareness.  This is what all of the spiritual teachings are pointing toward.  They all provide pointers to going beyond thought so that we can view the world as this awareness, and, in so doing, Be that which we already are.  Interacting with life situations from that space is how we can achieve a state of peace.  A peace that most of us have only briefly glimpsed in our lives.

There are many practices that assist in disassociating with thoughts so that we can rest in that spacious awareness, but one of the most simple (other than self inquiry) is one that is mentioned in The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.  Ask yourself, “I wonder what I am going to think next?”  Then focus your attention and wait for a thought to occur as if you were a cat intensely watching a mouse hole.  When a thought occurs, let it go and ask the question again.  Then go back to waiting for the next thought.  While in that state of waiting, without thought, you are completely present as that awareness.

There are many other portals to connecting with awareness and I recommend you try them all.  Don’t just try them once.  Engage in them on a regular basis throughout your day.  It will become easier and easier to go deeper into self awareness.  Just be still.

In peace,

Trey Carland

The Story of the Two O’s By Barbara Krauss

I welcome Organic Thinker. I have discovered that I am truly an Organic Thinker who is learning to love that my beautiful organic-thinking mind is taking me on a wonderfully delicious journey called life.

When I let Organic Thinker settle in, the flow is there. We are old friends and yet very new friends at the same time. The new friend imbued with excitement, infatuation, joy and gaiety. The old friend caressed by softness, centered, wisdom and knowing.

There is a warm, embracing comfort with my old friend as she envelops me in her tender arms and tells me how much she loves me and how she has always adored being in my glow for so many years. We are partners in life, touching, smelling, feeling, seeing, tasting the sweetness of a beautiful, ripe peach, biting into it, and experiencing the lusciousness of its maturity.

We are like very new friends just learning what it is to recognize who we are together. I touch her with trepidation; she steps towards me with caution. We are careful not to be too intrusive, yet we are both so curious. What will I ask of her? What does she want to know about me? This is a friendship in cultivation; I want her to feel comfortable with me and me with her. There is a green-ness, a spring-like bud just coming into its own. What the bud shall become, neither of us know.

I embrace my Organic Thinker when I am in a place of internal peace, when I am not worrying about the outcome, and when I am actually tasting my thoughts and igniting all of my senses. When I can let go of what I think I am supposed to be, settle into loving who I am and not having to change a thing, I can remove my mask of ‘having to’ and settle into my beauty of ‘getting to.’

In my day-to-day life, in planning and carrying out my intentions, my dreams, and my goals, my old/new friend deeply cares for me. She helps me pay attention to what is really important and taps me on the shoulder to remind me to not lose my focus. She helps me remember why I am doing this work both for myself and the others whose lives I have touched and will touch. She helps me remember that the gifts I have to offer the world are exactly what it has been waiting for. She helps me play, laugh, cry, embrace my frustration, create, put together, take apart, not to have to be perfect, to dance and sing, to play, to love, to be thankful, to live a full life.

 I'm learning that I get to “go Organic” instead of going into Overwhelm and integrate my friend into my life more and more. I am learning to choose Organic Thinker instead of Overwhelm. Organic Thinker feeds me. She is soft and forgiving, simple and authentic, relaxed and grounded; letting go of a contracted body, melting into the sand, sipping the nectar from honeysuckle. She teaches me not take things so seriously; to be open to what can be instead of what must be.

I have learned that she is here to stand by me. She is my ally supporting my unique vibrancy. She helps me remember how uncomfortable and out of sorts I get when I allow the voice of Overwhelm to be loud and overbearing, and how I crumble inward and lose my ground. I am learning to embrace Organic. She is the one who gives me the freedom and spaciousness to be me.

The voice of Overwhelm resounds. In the blink of an eye I can experience impatient energy that travels swiftly throughout my body. I forget to breathe, to feel the earth beneath my feet, to allow myself to be in the moment. Overwhelm wants to do it all now, and once again the chaotic vortex takes the upper hand. I am in Overwhelm.

Overwhelm lurks in the dark stretching and reaching its tendrils, waiting for the exact time to administer its sting. The pain comes from an old story, a habitual default I fall into bringing with it the comfort of familiarity. It also elicits great anxiety and a disquieting sensation throughout my entire being. The fever of my discomfort consumes me until my sweet spirit can no longer tolerate the intensity.

I summon Organic Thinker to hold me in her nurturing compassion. Whispering in my ear with infinite wisdom she gently invites me to put down what I am doing and take a break; to notice where my energy is and move towards it; to ask for help; to turn on some music and dance the dance I love to dance and expelling all of the energy that builds up inside of me; to scream, sing out loud, or cry out loud; to create a piece of art or write something out loud; to go for a walk in the forest; to have something cold to drink.

When I choose to connect to Organic Thinker I know I am in a place where 1+1=2 does not matter. I know I can feel the breath of serenity with the flow that permeates every cell in my body. I know I am not alone. I know I am exactly where I am supposed to be, creating what is waiting to be created. I am in the moment where there are no rules, no deadlines, no ‘having to,’ and no expectations.

When I connect to Organic Thinker, I know I have come home. Copyright 2012, Barbara Krauss

Barbara Krauss is the Steward of Creative Inquiry. She is most alive when enraptured by the organic flow and freedom she experiences when immersed in her creative expression, whether it is through movement, art or writing. As a Certified Master Creativity Coach and Practitioner, licensed Nia Instructor and owner of The Centre for Organic YESipes™, Barbara shares her creative passion and playful spirit. She guides individuals into the exploration of the possible while timing the voice that shouts impossible. Using a combination of modalities, Barbara empowers clients to create extraordinary transformational shifts in their lives by helping them to remember and reclaim what once made them feel alive. Contact Barbara on email at barbara@barbarakrauss.com, by phone at 206.371.0196, or on her website at www.barbarakrauss.com.

Improve Phobia - Kris Keppeler

 I’ve been a singer since Jr. High School but I got tired of choir in my early 20’s. So, I quit singing for awhile. A blind date took me to a Gilbert & Sullivan production several years later and I noticed the program indicated the company needed chorus members. I wanted to sing again and it looked like fun, so I auditioned for the next production. I had no resume or headshot but I got a chorus part.

Being a fairy in Iolanthe was fun, the other chorus members very nice but the director was very eccentric. My friends who attended the performance found the director’s performance fascinating as she almost took out the pianist with every swish of the baton. I didn’t repeat the adventure for another year but decided I liked it after my second G&S production in the chorus. I decided I wanted to be out front too and the director offered acting lessons to the chorus.

The director was a nice guy but not a good teacher. He used improv only to teach and yelled at me constantly. The improv situations were in your face stuff and stressful for all the students. I discontinued lessons with him but just the mention of the improv work sent my blood pressure soaring. I continued acting lessons at the most highly recommended school in Seattle and kept improving my skills. All except improv, I wouldn’t touch a class with it and I couldn’t handle improv in an audition situation.

Gary Austin came to Seattle to teach and promised improv in a safe environment. Working with Gary, I finally managed to do some improv work without sending my blood pressure through the roof. But, just the mention of it still made me nervous and likely to freeze at any time. After a few years, I decided to bite the bullet and attend an Improv camp. Yes, 6 days of straight improv, 9am to 10pm each day. I hoped to survive and get over my improv block. Much to my surprise, the work got easier by day 2. I met lots of great people, fellow actors and wonderful teachers. I learned lots of fun improv games, succeeded at improvised singing twice and I finally got over my fright.

 Do I regularly do improv now? Not on stage. But, when I do singing telegrams, comic roasting, auditions or rehearsals it comes in really handy and I couldn’t be a successful actor without it.

Improv is all the rage now, but you don’t have to be great at improv to be a good actor. Find an acting teacher you respect and who respects you and don’t allow yourself to be abused. Do allow yourself to be challenged by that teacher to get better at your craft.

I believe my story applies to any teaching situation, whether you’re the teacher or the student. A bad experience ruins future prospects for the student. A teacher loses students and damages their reputation. Learning is fun and expands your boundaries if you find the right teacher. Have fun learning at any age.

Improv Phobia By Kris Keppeler, voice actor, actress, comedian and singer with a blog on Wordpress - http://doesthishappentoyou.wordpress.com