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December 12, 2024

Fa la la la ME TIME!

Maybe because I just drove up and back to Santa Barbara from Los Angeles in eighteen hours, after sleeping on a lumpy bed, but the concept of self-care is really calling out to me tonight. Plus, as we know it’s the holid

December 5, 2024

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

I spent my adolescence in Connecticut where Christmas was born. Or so it felt. At my high school the “Candlelight Concert,” held in December was the highlight of the year for the whole town. We wore white gowns and as pr

December 3, 2024

What's More Satisfying than Black Friday? Giving Tuesday!

Yes, Giving Tuesday! A calendar reminder to express gratitude to those who are pushing the way forward with causes that are close to our hearts. For us, we go back to where LOC all started - fighting Alzheimer's and Deme

November 26, 2024

I’d Like to Thank...

As some of you may know I started out as an actor, back when we were still called actresses. In my acting class days, I have a distinct memory of being assigned to write and deliver an acceptance speech for your hypothetical Oscar. In a “if you build it they will come,” way of thinking.

November 14, 2024

Just Say Yes…to Showing Up! It matters!

There you are, lying on the couch in your son’s girlfriend's Brandi Melville sweatpants that are as comfortable as the owner is sleazy, watching Love is Blind: the Reunion after a week of feeling battered by the news and

November 6, 2024

Don’t Let Disappointment Take You Out!

Stating the obvious, whatever side you come down on in this week’s election, according to the numbers about half of us are disappointed. To put it mildly.

October 30, 2024

Office Zombies: A Cautionary Tale

In the early 90’s when I first moved to LA I worked as a paralegal. This was back when you needed real people to redline legal documents to catch errors. The “office” I reported to was a house with very large dining and living rooms. Each had long tables running from one end to the other with folding chairs on both sides. A very thin woman in her early 50’s with long red nails and bleached blonde bob was in perpetual motion. She was never without a personalized ceramic mug: Boss Lady. Which she was, the owner of what was basically a paralegal sweatshop.

October 24, 2024

You Say Facility, We Say Community!

Most of you are probably too young to remember the Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire song called, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” It’s a duet about the minute differences in pronunciation of words - like tomato and potato - poised to ruin a relationship. With a meet-cute vibe, about breaking up and then deciding not to, it’s charming and very 1937.

October 17, 2024

Self-Deprecation vs. Self-Compassion

Like prizefighters in a ring, it’s time for these two heavyweights to duke it out. I know who I’d bet on for going the distance for mental health, but often, particularly in comedy, I can be alone on this.

October 9, 2024

HAPPY AGEISM AWARENESS DAY

I love a good holiday, any chance to blow up balloons and eat buttercream. However, today is Ageism Awareness Day and it has me a little stumped. Or at least it did at first glance. I mean, I know how old I am, do we nee

October 3, 2024

National Alzheimer's Accountability Act Gets A Pick Up!

I work in comedy, so when my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, naturally I thought to help by making her laugh. Then I set out to help not only people facing the disease, but the people who care for them with comedi

September 27, 2024

Amazon is Making Connection a Priority

The executive who booked us to come in person to AMAZON this week may be psychic. Or maybe they knew that CEO Andy Jassy was going to make his RTO announcement. Love that they wanted to make sure people feel good by