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Swimming in the ocean always leaves a person wondering what's beneath them.
In the deep, calm water.
In the dark.

The path I travelled to become an artist is a winding one. My earliest ambition was to be a great actress, singer, and dancer. At age nine I began performing with Kidskits and studying theater. For the next eleven years I pursued acting with a single minded devotion. Then at age twenty I was done. I studied finance, literature, and business. I had a baby, I got serious about college and I discovered law. With the same intensity I had pursued acting I pursued litigating. I discovered that twenty years of theater training and experience made me a damned fine litigator. I protected abused children, endangered species, and supported small businesses. Then things changed. The migraines I had since childhood, one or two a month,...