Hello Friends. Sharing a bit of information with you on this beautiful Friday afternoon, aggregated from my sources. It’s a mixed bag… but then what isn’t? Auto sales, manufacturing, jobs and retail all up. Historically, housing has led the nation out of recessions. This time it is employment, incomes, and trade that will lead housing [...]
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Becoming (W)hole
It was so many years ago and it was yesterday. I was caught in an unfortunate situation, one that was not of my own making… or was it? The world was in chaos as America was suffering from the gaping wounds of 911, I was the mother of two small sons, working in the theatre [...]
Getting to (W)hole Part III: The other shoe.
By Tracy Shaffer on October 23, 2010 in Arts & Culture Performance, Denver Happenings, Lifestyle, Musings on Life, Playwrighting, Theatre, Thriving Artist Alliance, Uncategorized
I endure hardship, folding it into life like melted butter into batter. It is an expected guest, though an unwelcome one. What unfolded in the summer of ’08 was an unexpected test. I could no longer swim in the waters of chaos, the vortex of mental illness is far too strong. The dam broke in [...]
Le Muse du Musee
I met Natalie Rekstad-Lynn in 2005, she was sitting along the wall of my acting class with the rest of the students at the Denver Center Theatre Academy. She’d only made it to a few classes but did not go unnoticed. Her eyes were clear blue and clearly focused, her ballerina’s body and the intensity [...]
Summer, Denver Style
Saturday night in Riverfront Park, 1,200 of Denver’s finery crowd… read my latest Huffington Post blog on the beauty that walks the riverside.
Telluride Playwrights Festival asks “Are New Works Important?”
This is the question slated for the Telluride Playwrights Festival Open House on Thursday, and a conversation that circulates through the theatre community like a five dollar bill. I’ve popped this and a few other questions to some of the TPF participants. Grabbing a post-rehearsal snack at Smugglers with director/playwright William Missouri Downs, in from [...]
Keep it real… really.
What a week of paradox it’s been. As one thing falls apart, another comes together; bank approval here, foreclosure sale postponed there, and just when you feel the darkness, a double rainbow hurls itself into your horizon. Sometimes events and their contrast seem to flurry in such rapid succession, don’t they? During these accelerated moments [...]
Father’s Day: it’s not for the faint of heart.
Sunday morning and the boys are still in bed. That’s good. Eventually they’ll raise their sleepy heads and realize it is Father’s Day with their dad no where in sight. I never wanted to be a father; being a mother is challenging (and rewarding) enough, thank you. I hold the roll in high regard and [...]
Writer’s Block or Block Party?
I have so much writing to do. Backed up on blogs and interviews for the Huffington Post and Telluride Inside and the final draft for a pending stage production. Summertime always ramps up the distractions: the kids out of school, the real estate biz busy, the house guests, hikes and the road trip. But when [...]
Beautiful new listing in the Highlands/Berkeley neighborhood.
I’ve just listed a one-of-a-kind property in one of Denver’s hippest neighborhoods. Walk or roll to Sunflower Market, First Friday Art Walk and the funky/trendy/boutiques on Tennyson Street, quick commute to downtown and the most bea-U-tiful gardens! Take a moment and check out the virtual tour linked below.