Deborah Kimmett
Wit..Wisdom..Wonderful!!
"She made 100 psychiatrists laugh."
Christina Raposa, Mental Health,
Scarborough Hospital
SURVIVING MS CRAZY
March 2, 2010
As my kid was slamming the car door yelling. “ Mom I hate you”, I realized teaching your kids to drive is a lot like natural childbirth. All that breathing sounds like a good idea until the first contraction, its damn the torpedoes and every man for himself.
I wanted the driving lesson to turn out differently. Perhaps me clutching the dashboard, saying the rosary didn’t instill confidence.
In my day, it was different. We wrote a test, got our license in the afternoon, drove on the big highway that night.
Today they
Categories: News... | Death of the Dessert I grieve the death of the dessert. I ache for the way a square could shoot pain into a filling. We made real squares back then not those frozen, terrible tasting Nanaimo bars from some factory. We delighted in homemade brownies, lemon squares, Queen Elizabeth Cake, and fudgies, chocolate with coconut dropped on waxed paper. My personal favourite was those wonderful bite-sized delights with multi-coloured marshmallows in them – we called them Dollies. There was always a beautiful array of these nummies sitting proudly upon
Categories: News... | C OMEDIANDeborah Kimmett admits that it isn’t easy per- forming in front of a home- town crowd. “I actually get more stressed (than doing a show elsewhere) because everybody knows you,” Kimmett says with a laugh. Nevertheless, the comic with local roots is once again bringing her funny act to the Napanee stage at the Lion’s Hall on Feb. 4. One year ago, Kimmett was performing at the same venue to raise money for her educational video, ‘Talking to Sick People’. The video is a light-hearted examination of a serious subject,and will be used to help caregivers develop better communication techniques when speaking with people who are sick. She said she got the idea to develop the video after taking a palliative care course through Lennox and Addington Hospice. She worked with Hospice Executive Direc- tor Peggy Sunstrum
Categories: News... | Crazy circles the Airport but we’re the one who clears it for Landing. To paraphrase Shakespeare “Work is but a stage and we are merely players.” In my case this is not just a metaphor. I am in the theatre business so this story involves an actress called Elizabeth Ashby. Many years ago she won the lead role in the Broadway play, Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. She played the love-starved Maggie who moved through life like a hungry cat. To prepare herself for the role Ashby went to the streets of New York City
Categories: News... | How can one person eat a bag of Bowel Buddies in two days? And what’s with that name? What next? Colon Chums? Shit Disturtbers? On the sixth day of January this year, I had an epiphany. I decided to be a better person. I decided to be a person who helps. I had just turned 50 and I thought, now that I am getting older, I had better start cramming for my finals. Besides, I was sick of just writing a cheque for charity and buying cheese from the school kids. I wanted hands-on helping. So I went
Categories: News... | To paraphrase Shakespeare “Work is but a stage and we are merely players.” In my case this is not just a metaphor. I am in the theatre business so this story
Categories: News..., You're Entitled to My Opinion | Everybody right now is focused on the bad news. In fact if the news isn’t bad enough on one channel they press the remote and watch it on another. But we start to become the story we tell ourselves. So if we focus on the negative all day we start to think that is the only reality. What story are you telling yourself? Stories are what makes us human. Wolves don’t sit around telling each other the tales of the day. (or maybe all that howling has a punch line?) When we tell our stories we make sense of our complicated lives.
Categories: News... | The show Relevant Deborah Kimmett was such FABU. Full house. Lots of laughs and we did a wonderful quiet remembrance day special for all the women in the military and their families. Plus 500 dollars was donated to the church. Thanks to mainlanders and islanders for your support. Kim Pollard, the opening singer who was also woven in amongst my stories brought the house down. She now is playing weekly at Smiling Wildnerness Restaurant. DON”T MISS HER. If you want to write my writers workshop is November 21st . But BEST OF ALL we just put tickets on sale for
Categories: News... | Doing a Debaters for CBC Radio on November 9th at Glenn Gould. I have to argue in favour of Recyling. My opponent is the hilarious Glen Foster. Here is a taste test. Comment if you think I will win. I live in the sticks and there is no curbside pickup. Garbage men are called husbands and I should have made my marriage work because it’s terrifying at the dump with the feral cats and marauding packs of retired men. Those guys may be recling but the size of those bellies some of them
Categories: News... | BOOK NOW FOR WRITERS WORKSHOP ON NOVEMBER 21st AT MUSIC MARKET CAFE. DON”T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GET YOUR PEN MOVING. 14th: LAUGH OUT LOUD: My own special Comedy Show Airs on CBC Radio. Number One Canadian Download on 1-Tunes for 3rd Week Running 17th AD Latornell Conservation Symposium Green Speakers Event Guelph 21st: Writers Workshop “CREATIVE WRITING “ Market Cafe, Napanee $100– 10 participants. BOOK NOW deborah at kimmett.ca 24th City of Kitchener All Day Communication and Collaboration Workshop. Â
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The Death of Dessert
February 15, 2010
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The Relevant Deborah Kimmett
February 2, 2010
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Some Days Crazy Circles The Airport!
January 26, 2010
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NEUROSIS DU JOUR
January 6, 2010
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The Roles We Play
December 3, 2009
involves an actress called Elizabeth Ashby. Many years ago she won the lead role in the Broadway play, Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. She played the love-starved Maggie who moved through life like a hungry cat. To prepare herself for the role Ashby went to the streets of New York City to study alley cats behaviours. She imitated the way they moved; they way they pounced when confronted
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Tell A different Story
November 25, 2009
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THE RELEVANT DEBORAH KIMMETT
November 9, 2009
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The Debaters
November 2, 2009
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Running The Roads in November
October 31, 2009
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