MY MISSION STATEMENT

People have tried to define me my entire life, with definitions that don’t quite fit.

I’m not a filmmaker, as I hardly use film anymore and use mostly digital. I’m not a Moviemaker, as that is limiting. I was never the Class Clown or School Bully (Thank The Universe!) I never asked to be on put the pedestal many tried to knock me down from. I never feel like I fit in... though you might have thought otherwise. 

I was the Breakfast Club rolled into one; the Jock, the Geek, the Weirdo, the Stoner. But I wasn’t the Rich Girl. I was the Poor kid From The Other Side Of The Tracks.

I was Co-Captain of my football team and on the chess club. I was part of the Drama Club and Debate. I wrote & took pics for my school news paper. I was once the class president. I ran with many cliques, yet was my own lone wolf.

 

Ivana Chubbuck, one of the  greatest acting teachers to every exist and really a teacher of life, when she said "jD is a nice guy" Ivana said, "No. jD is a good guy. But a dangerous one." (I have yet to ask her what she fully meant by this, but I'd say how I read it she's dead-on)

 

The Dali Lama told me I was "A Reiki Master.."

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Robin Williams told me to I was very funny and quick and I should become a stand up comedian or I'd be depriving the world."

 

I've been told I somehow manage to be cocky yet humble at the same time.

 

And plenty have called me an "Asshole."

I’ll tell you what I am, which should not be confused with the sum-total of who I am:
 

I am an open book (Kind of literary now that the first book I wrote was published June, 2019. And We Married Margo is loosely based on my life) I'm a castle with a 50 foot moat and a 100 foot wall. I’m a contradiction (Which makes sense being born a Pisces) A Contrarian. A Word Smith (Which is quite a bold statement for someone Dyslexic. I’m socked I didn’t write “Words Mith”) A Magic-Hope Maker. A philosopher. A Truth Speaker. "People like the truth as much as they like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry" -The brilliant "The Big Short") I'm an I Don't Give A fook what you think of me. In fact, I like that you might not like me and are challenged by me. Or is that threatened? What I am is:

I am a Story Teller.

​But that’s me defining me. In the end, as well as now, it will be others who define me.

But on my terms

​Gambaru!!!