Exquisitely human. Celebrating Calamity West's Blog site

"...finding stories in everything. continually trying to write more and smoke less. love more and think less. read more and worry less. always listening." 

There is this playwright I met, found her blog online. She is interesting. She is thought provoking and best of all, writes with honesty. It can be a vulnerable place, honesty. But she does it and does it well. "(he puts out his cigarette. i want to tell him he doesn't have to and light one myself. but he doesn't think that i smoke - 'cause i don't look like a person who smokes - i like this. so i open the window slightly, pretending that the smell is bothering me.)"

She writes that she is always listening and I love that her blogs capture just that. They are often internal monologues or script like interruptions of conversations from her adventures resulting in free cab rides, so far a two part series, and how crawling like a five year old on the cab seats when entering or her crooked endearing smiles maybe what gets her to work free and on time. She writes of train rides often. I think we all have our fave train ride characters. Don't you? She is a voice inside us all, sometimes capturing the good, the bad and the ugly.

"When I was a kid, I would judge whether an encyclopedia was scholastically apt or not based on it's article of Elizabeth Taylor. My mother bought our encyclopedia from a Mormon who had been excommunicated from the church but missed the thrill of door to door interactions. My mother, moved by his story, bought a 24 set encyclopedia which did not have an article of Elizabeth Taylor - although it did have a photo of her with a caption. "

Exquisitely human.

Check out Calamity West's blog to gain some insight into the life of a young female playwright in Chicago, Illinois, who can captivate you from her stories about youth to her cab ride scripts.

http://westcalamity.blogspot.com

Be sure to come back and see who else caught my eye this week on the wonder world wide web featuring empowering women :0

Fin.