Wendy Liebman's annual comedy benefit is coming up.
This year it will be on Thursday April 21st at the Somerville Theatre(in Somerville).
and
I'll be one of the comedians performing on it!
Great line-up that includes: Chris Tabb, Mike McDonald, Jonathon Katz, Jimmy Tingle and others(plus me thrown in somewhere).
Here's a link with more info:
http://www.communityworks.com/


Here's a link for the Somerville Theatre:
THE LINK I JUST TOLD YOU ABOUT

Come on out!
It's for a good cause!
Yay!

What happened to Sonja?!?!

When I was in junior high I had a pen pal named Sonja. She was from Germany.
I started being her pen pal as an assignment through my 6th grade history class.
I was reminded of Sonja recently and realized I had saved all of her letters because we didn't email one another, we actually wrote out letters and mailed them to one another.
So I read all of them(because I can be crazy like that).
Based on her letters I apparently asked her a lot of questions because she frequently says,
"Valerie, I will try to answer all of your questions but you ask so many of them..."
I also apparently yapped on and on about Garfield(the cartoon/comic strip) a lot because in one of her letters she says,
"Yes, Valerie to answer your question, which I think you've asked me a few times, we do have Garfield in Germany..."
Sonja and I appeared to have written to one another for a span of 2-3 years.
I don't remember why we stopped writing to one another or whether it was her or me who stopped writing but based on her letters she seemed like a lovely person.
I'm going to guess that she stopped writing to me because she got sick of me asking her about Garfield ; )

Wherever you are Sonja, I hope you're doing ok!

My comedy has changed quite a bit over the last 6 or 7 years
and
I think it's because these days I'm a lot...happier.
That makes a huge difference in my writing.
I don't think that this detail makes me less funny
but
it might make me less "edgy".
There is nothing wrong that(I THINK).