In Great Company

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stacy

spacer Hey! Turns out I made the cast of Listen To Your Mother! I am super excited. I have done many, many public appearances in my life: speeches, television, presentations, bridal shows, an appearance on Donald Trump’s The Apprentice, a Sears commercial, a TV special about motherhood, you name it. (One of the most fun things about being a magazine editor is I never knew what opportunity would come to me next.)

But I have actually never stood on stage and read a work I wrote as part of a performance.

I can’t wait! And I am in utterly fantastic company!

See?

Barbara Patrick
DeBorah “Momma D” Gray
Jaime Fernandez
Kim Forde
Kizz Robinson
Laura Pruden
Marinka
Mary Beth Coudal
Nicole Goodwin
Nivea Castro
Rebecca Land Soodak
Sandy Rustin
Sasha Schreiner
Shari Simpson
Sofia Quintero
Stacy Morrison
Susan Buttenweiser
Tracy Beckerman
Virginia Watkins

I am so looking forward to the rehearsals and to meeting the women above I have not yet met. I absolutely loved the experience of auditioning (read the post below), and can’t wait for the big night! (May 12; buy tickets here.) And come up and say hi after the show!

I love doing something I’ve never done before. Please share with me: What have you done or tried recently you had never done before?

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About stacy

I am a writer, author, mother, longtime magazine editor (20 years in the business, 6 as editor in chief of Redbook), optimist, and, above all, a searcher. Right now, I'm searching for whom I'm really meant to be, after living through a series of very jarring changes that bumped me out of the life I was living: a son, then a divorce, a cataclysimcally messed-up house, which led to a book (Falling Apart In One Piece), and then, one week after that book came out, my parents both fell gravely ill, I resigned from my job (and maybe my career), my son got very scared and then, later, was diagnosed with an anxiety/ADHD disorder, my parents died, and at the same time, my boyfriend moved in with my son and me and we started the long and very painful journey of realizing we couldn't make our relationship work (that story unfolds on this blog). Since then I've been trying to figure out what's next. Or, in other words, how to fill in the blanks.
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12 Responses to In Great Company

  1. spacer Linda True says:
    March 4, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    Stacy — that is cool! I recently did something that I have never done — a few things. I was cast as a part of the Vagina Monologues for V-Day, and I got to sexually moan on stage as a lesbian sex worker. Hmm…not being a lesbian, or a sex worker, or very extroverted, this was new — but very empowering and helped to raise money to help women who have or are suffering from domestic violence or sexual assault. Totally great, and I too got to work with a wonderful group of women. All I have to say to you is “Get it girl!”

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  2. spacer Holly says:
    March 5, 2013 at 12:53 am

    Congrats! I am so excited for you — and for our show!

    I recently went up in a high air balloon and loved it. I felt like I was a bird in the sky and can do anything.

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  3. spacer Rita says:
    March 5, 2013 at 8:39 am

    That is so great! Wishing I was not all the way on the other side of the country so I could some see.

    I recently tried taking a knitting class. It was pretty much a bust (not a great class, and I realized I’m not going to make time for knitting). But it did feel good to attempt something new. Your question has me realizing I need to do more of that.

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  4. spacer BigLittleWolf says:
    March 6, 2013 at 6:39 am

    This is very very cool! (Nothing new to share whatsoever… but reading always takes me to new places, so that’s not a bad thing!)

    Keep us posted. So exciting!

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  5. spacer teamgloria says:
    March 6, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    Tremendously Exciting!!!

    Brava, lady.

    We just edited a short story and sent it The Paris Review. Never donthat before. Felt very Janet Flanner filing copy from foreign parts.

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    • spacer exlibris says:
      March 13, 2013 at 11:33 am

      Had never heard of Flanner til reading your comment here. Turns out today’s the 121st anniversary of her birth (March 13)~

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  6. spacer Kizz says:
    March 8, 2013 at 10:22 pm

    Looking forward to meeting you on Sunday!

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    • spacer stacy says:
      March 8, 2013 at 10:56 pm

      Me too you!

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  7. spacer exlibris says:
    March 13, 2013 at 11:53 am

    Feeling your excitement, Stacy!
    As for something “new” — I’m needing to contact WRIR-FM about reading for one of their “Rainbow Minute” segments, recorded 1-minute spots highlighting leaders against homophobia; they’re broadcast as filler between songs or playlists:
    wrir.org/index.php?/shows/program/rainbow-minute/

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    • spacer stacy says:
      March 15, 2013 at 10:00 am

      Yes! Yes! You must do that!!! Please share links when you do! I’d love to hear your voice in them. xo

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  8. spacer Yasmine says:
    March 14, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    Hi Stacy:
    I just finished reading your book and was blown away by your honesty. I finished the book in one night, I couldn’t put it down! I wish you and your son the best.
    Yasmine

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    • spacer stacy says:
      March 15, 2013 at 9:59 am

      Yasmine, thanks so much for your kind words about my book! I so appreciate hearing them. And my son and I are doing very well right now, so thank you also for that wish. Sending you love, SLM

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