Dale Samms
actor • voice artist • writer
Well, here we are. The end of a decade. Time to reflect as a new one begins. What will these roaring 20’s hold? What do we want from our next 10 years? An adage says we shouldn’t spend too much time looking to the past. Research backs this because it […]
Lists. They’re everywhere. It seems everyone has an opinion they feel compelled to share with the rest of the world. Top 10s, 20s, 50s, even hundreds… lists of bests, worsts, mosts, leasts — you name it, there’s lists for it. & they’re all different because they’re all. Painfully. Arbitrary. My […]
There’s truth in the notion history repeats itself. I’ll take a step further by saying it’s guaranteed when left unchecked. It’s in the cyclical patterns of nature. It’s evidenced in universal laws. It’s ingrained in our behavior as a living species. Because we humans are conscious, self-aware entities, when we […]
Chuck Lorre is one of the greatest creator-writers in American television history. His rise to the top over the past 30-plus years has come by way of hit after hit, each moving with the times, yet staying the same at their cores. In lieu of the end of one era […]
John Singleton is dead. He was an extraordinary talent whose work inspired me to become a storyteller. A trailblazer who, in an era where stories about the “black experience” in America were not the norm, presented stories that spoke to so many who have or still endure any level of […]
I was a wrestler in high school. Not the WWE kind, the greco-roman variety. & I was terrible at it. My best friend coaxed me into it in our freshman year by appealing to my competitive nature –we had a long history of friendly rivalry. The first weeks of practice […]
I’ve had more than my share of “whoops” moments in life. My favorites are the ones when I got myself into a bind for doing something dumb I knew had a reasonable chance of ending poorly. More than I care to admit, let me tell you… ‘What ifs’ & ‘coulda […]
As the saying goes, ‘change is the only constant’. Though our world’s always in flux, change has never happened so rapidly for humanity than as since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The emergence of ever-evolving technologies that have come rapidly since have pushed our existence & experiences like never […]