Spotlight Soul Prints

They hated me.

Social distancing

Cat Tie

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"It's not face paint. I'm transitioning into a snow leopard."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

"Oh good, more time alone for quiet reflection."

"Do you think that will count as our 'Fifteen minutes of fame'?"

'Don't worry about your job at the office, Sweetie. They declared bankrupty today.'

"I can't stay in this hospital bed too long. Everyone will think I'm too old...too fragile...ready for the home. I'm not ready for that!"

"Is this who I am?"

"Or we could raise your profile by coming out with that pimple on the end of your nose."

The older I get, the more introspective I get, or is that retrospective?'

'Is there a psychiatrist in the house - the cast is very depressed over opening night reviews!'

"I feel like there's a chick in me trying to escape."

'I'm a star!'

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

How to cope in Los Angeles vs. New York

"Wonder if there's something wrong with you? Reality is for us all it's true..."

"Only four more weeks before school is out...and then we're free for the time of our lives!"

"No, it hasn't anything to do with my presentation. But wait until you see how I hold everyone's attention with it sitting next to me at the podium."

'Mummy, can you please pull the curtain and make it dark please? I'm scared of the light...'

"For my next trick, I'll require an audience."

Open Mike for the spotlight operators

Late-Onset Epiphany

"Solitude is so much better if you have someone to share it with."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious day when you're ripe and not yet mealy?"

'Take a picture...it'll last longer.'

"Date of birth?" "1989." "In 1989 I couldn't make ice... still can't." "Good lord, she could be my daughter! I'm so #!@* old." "That's the year my wife left me. Now I have a cold and I'm depressed!"

"It's not for you, it's for the paparazzi."

"Look at me, everyone! I'm amazing!"

PastFuture.

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."