I want to say that my life right now - even in these tight financial times - is probably the best it has ever been in terms of joy and happiness in all my 70 years. Every day brings me another great experience, another new friend, another new discovery. Because my life sort of revolves around cabaret about 90 percent of the time, I have a chance to meet talented and giving people day after day, night after night. Via the internet I have a host of great friends I have never met - two folks in Adelaide (who have never met each other), a fellow in Cape Town, a performer in London, a singer in Phoenix, a fellow on a cruise ship sailing somewhere in the world - entertainers all. I estimate I listen to 10,000 different songs a year - on CDs, at shows, at festivals (and my iPod).
A lot of folks, when they write, add the comment "Thanks for all you do for cabaret." Well, I must protest because, to be quite honest, cabaret has done for me much more than I can do for it.
