by Kate Fuglei | Jul 16, 2021 | Guest Writers |
Exposure When I first moved to New York as a young actress, I was offered a job understudying a Broadway diva for a production in Washington, D.C. I was thrilled and intimidated. I was comforted when I met her on the first day and she reassured me that she never...
by Kate Fuglei | Jun 13, 2021 | Guest Writers |
When people in California hear that I was born in Nebraska, they assume I was raised on a farm, with cornstalks, cows and rolling plains. But as Eva Gabor once said, “I get allergic smelling hay.” I have rarely been on a farm; I grew up in Omaha, a city of 400,000...
by Kate Fuglei | May 14, 2021 | Guest Writers |
Listen Yesterday I spoke with my friend whose son is in Afghanistan. He is in the Army and he is among the last troops to be there. The situation is fluid, tense, uncertain. It is transitional, to put it delicately. He is her beloved only son. As a fellow...
by Kate Fuglei | Apr 10, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers |
One Year Ago – 2020 On our final night in Brooklyn a year ago, my husband and I took a walk on Court Street. We headed through Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens to our favorite pizza joint. It was grey and rainy. A fine mist fell over everything as...
by Kate Fuglei | Mar 27, 2021 | Guest Writers |
Connecting Through Cleaning My Grandma Alta and I connected through cleaning. She was a tall, thin woman whose Norwegian ancestors had made a place for themselves toiling in the fields of eastern Nebraska. She lived in Omaha in a small, eternally neat apartment when I...
by Kate Fuglei | Feb 15, 2021 | Guest Writers |
*I owe a man in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, 60 cents for six Payday candy bars I stole from him when I was ten. They were cheaper then, ten cents each. But I stole them and I never repaid him. Our family vacation every year was a trip to Minnesota to stay at a lake...
by Kate Fuglei | Jan 23, 2021 | Guest Writers |
Kate, their dog and MaryEllen, Kate’s best friend “It’s a Free Country” We were a Lutheran family although my mother was raised Catholic. She became a Lutheran later in life. It may have had something to do with the fact that we lived across...
by Kate Fuglei | Dec 22, 2020 | Guest Writers |
As the saying goes, what happens in acting class stays in acting class Yes, it is true. You share things with fellow actors in an acting class that your nearest and dearest family members may not even know. In a great class, like that of the brilliant Gordon Hunt, you...
by Kate Fuglei | Nov 3, 2020 | Guest Writers |
My elder son went to the United States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point. Parents were invited for grand occasions and ceremonies. But one November during his second year at West Point, I had a business trip to Manhattan and decided to visit him during a...
by Kate Fuglei | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured, Guest Writers |
My Uncle Ed used to insist he had ridden a bicycle from Nebraska to Guatemala. He claimed he had learned to swim by being thrown into the Mississippi River when he was four. He said he had roped steer on cattle drives from Abilene to Texarkana. My father frowned on...
by Kate Fuglei | Sep 30, 2020 | Everyday Hero, Featured |
Camp Director, Casey Banks, is inspiring hundreds of teens to see the importance of actions and consequences through a Youth and Government program he established at YMCA’s Camp Whittle in Los Angeles County, CA. Teaching Core Values, Changing Lives and Strengthening...
by Kate Fuglei | Sep 26, 2020 | Guest Writers |
My father- in-law was always 100% supportive of his children and grandchildren. They could do no wrong. Once, when he was visiting LA, we came home from a pre-school conference about my elder son. I told my father-in-law what they had said. “He is slightly...
by Kate Fuglei | Aug 21, 2020 | Guest Writers |
The Stephen Sondheim song I’M STILL HERE rings in my head often these days. One of the lyrics goes, “I should have gone to an acting school, that seems clear.” The song itself is about an old actress who has seen it all and survived. I didn’t go to any fancy acting...
by Kate Fuglei | Jul 15, 2020 | Guest Writers |
Kate Fuglei, writer and actress, in character as Rachel Calof —The Rachel Calof Story: A Memoir With Music Inspired by the Past A grayish brick has a permanent place of honor in the middle of my desk. On top of the chunk of brick sits a round black piece of smooth...
by Kate Fuglei | Jun 30, 2020 | Everyday Hero, Guest Writers |
Working the Frontline at Trader Joe’s: Everyday Hero Max Lazebnik Dedication to his colleagues and his customers during the Covid-19 pandemic I have great respect for my nephew Max Lazebnik. He is a visual artist with stunning talent. He has had two recent...
by Kate Fuglei | Jun 16, 2020 | Guest Writers |
What do we do? What do we do when the problems of the world, of America, of our city, our street, tear at our hearts and our souls, waking us up in the middle of the night and appearing before our eyes and our ears in a constant drumbeat? What questions should we be...
by Kate Fuglei | May 31, 2020 | Everyday Hero, Featured |
Everyday Heroes Meet Front Line Newlyweds Jo and Megan My niece Kim’s son Joe Calcagno was married to Megan on a beautiful day in Oak Brook Illinois last September 7th. They had a glorious wedding for the ages, with hundreds of family and friends in attendance....
by Kate Fuglei | May 25, 2020 | Guest Writers |
It never failed. Whenever my Grandma Bernice saw my cousin Susan she would gather Susan into her arms and pat her hair. “Look at these beautiful curls and ringlets. Like tiny sausages.” Susan would climb on to her lap. My Grandmother would play with her curls while...
by Kate Fuglei | Apr 24, 2020 | Guest Writers |
All of our lives have shifted in ways we could never have foreseen even four weeks ago. From the most monumental to the smallest detail the manner in which we measure our lives will be forever changed. The things we crave as human beings; touch, the gatherings to...
by Kate Fuglei | Mar 16, 2020 | Guest Writers |
“Keep in touch” is a phrase that takes on new meaning when you are a military family. In these days of constant contact via cell phone and other devices, the concept that you could not be in touch with your son or daughter is nearly unthinkable. It is an almost...
