old and new, silver and gold, etc!

No year in review here, boy. If there’s anyone who has no need to review 2011, it’s the Post a Day bunch! We’ve been reviewing our year, realtime, ad nauseam!

Instead, I shall show you a picture.

Brian, Becky, Judy

When I moved to Ventura the first time, I came from San Francisco after living there for 14 years, my entire adult life. I was shell shocked, lonely, weirded out. I had been living in Ventura a couple months (with my just my mother and aunt for company) before Brian came down to visit me for Christmas.

I complained to him about my isolation, and the low freak factor of my new home. He advised that I should seek out a theatre group to join, that’s where the interesting people would be. That night, we saw an ad in the newspaper, advertising an improv class. He insisted that we go.

We walked through the door of Ventura Improv Company (then known as Ventura Area TheatreSports) and I found my home. My very first improv was with Judy. It was an arms-through scene, set in a party, and had something to do with a vegetable tray.

That was on December 26, 1996. The picture above is of Brian, myself, and Judy, almost exactly 15 years later. Thanks, you two, for starting the process of changing the course of my life.

Here I am at the start of (yet! YET!) another new year, looking backward and forward at the same time, and liking what I see.

8 Comments

  1. Chris on December 31, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Hey, congratulations on a year of writing! I’d love to read a post about what you’ve learned, loved and hated about all this, and what you’d do differently. Or whatever. Happy New Year!

  2. Tom Mueller on December 31, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    You are lovely, Becky. Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for the last 15 years and for many more. Love, Tom

  3. Carol Moore on December 31, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    You are so fabulous. I can’t tell you how I will miss reading a post every single day. I understand it – but I will miss it. My “cool friend Becky”. Happy New Year. xoxo

  4. Matt on December 31, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    Awesome Becky,

    You have been a real inspiration this year. Thank you for helping me with my improv skills. Congrats on a year of writing.

  5. Jeana on January 1, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Happy New Year, Becky! You are incredible and I, too, will miss the post-a-day, although you totally deserve a break! Can’t wait to see what this year brings for you.

  6. Judy on January 1, 2012 at 10:23 am

    I finally got to read this after the craziness of yesterday. Thank you for all you do and the success of last night is a tribute to what you have contribute.

  7. Ellen Campbell on January 3, 2012 at 8:43 am

    Happy Lovely New Year. SF STILL misses you.

  8. Jamie on January 3, 2012 at 11:05 am

    What an inspiring story. Shows how just taking a chance and walking through a door can change your life for the better. Don’t know about me and improv but I’m sure there are some chances out there to take in 2012.

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