In my life as an actress and singer, “reinvention” is just part of the job; every time you work you create a new role. This skill helped when I took on the role of "stay-at-home mom" and realized that I had to do something with the artistic part of me that did not want to simply stay at home. I must have been staring at the walls because I noticed that most light-switch covers were either plain white or boring beige. I started decorating and selling light-switch covers, eventually renting booth space at an art show to see if I could become a “mompreneur” (my daughter slept through most of the sales in a sling around my body and was known as the “booth baby”).
     After a year of successful weekend street fairs, I started selling wholesale, and my switch plates wound up in hundreds of museum stores. I ran the business from my home where I was able to raise three daughters to teen and tween hood. Then I sold the business and lived off the proceeds while I returned to my first love, the theatre. Because of that dreaded “e” word (“the economy”), reinvention called out, and I find myself running my own business once more. Again, motherhood was the inspiration. Only this time I wasn’t inspired by too much time on my hands. On the contrary, juggling my performing career and three children (I mean juggling their schedules; the children are too big to juggle), I still had time to make healthy lunches but no method to pack them quickly. So I designed a lunch-box system that makes life easy. Now I’m selling my lunch boxes to other busy moms all over the world. Plays have two acts. Life has four or five. Maybe more.  We’ll see.