Show Business Book Excerpt 9: Choosing Joy Over Fear
Are you trying to be too gosh-darn perfect at whatever you're doing? Does it feel like a struggle? Might you even be frustrated? Concerned you might flub up or make the wrong decision? Have you been working so hard on trying to create a certain outcome that you've...
Show Business Book Excerpt 8: I Never Wanted to Be Normal Again
These two bunhead pics are of me, circa early 1980s. Oh how I adored the elegance and beauty of ballet! Let's get all posh and sip a cuppa tea along with today's "trina" tales. You can pour yourself some hot Lipton if you'd prefer. But given that I'm talking about not...
Show Business Book Excerpt 7: Pinball Wizard
Here's a groovy pic of my childhood jazz class dancing to "Pinball Wizard" back in the 1970s. (I'm the one in the back row, center stage, boogieing my heart out.) What are you a wizard at? What gets you jazzed in life? Makes you feel super alive? Floats your boat?...
Show Business Book Excerpt 6: A Dancer Was Born
That's a picture my proud Pa took of me (and my classmate) in our dance recital way back when (probably 1980). He recognized how much ballet meant to me and took the initiative to document it in film. How important it is to have fans cheering you on in your pursuits....
Show Business Book Excerpt 5: Dolly Dinkle’s School of Dance
Did any of you take dance class as a kid? Maybe your children are hip-hopping, pirouetting, or shuffling off to Buffalo at their local dance studios. For years my daughter said, "I hate dance." She didn't want to be anything like her discoing Ma. "You're a terrible...
Show Business Book Excerpt 4: Bitten By the Bug
Oh, the good old days when headbands were cool and hand-sewing sequins and homemade, felt decorations onto an old leotard seemed like the right thing to do. That snazzy bunch is me (the blonde standing center), my sis, and my neighborhood pals gearing up for an...
Show Business Book Excerpt 3: Starting Small
To do great things, we sometimes have to start small. The important thing is that we start. And we LOVE what we are doing. My first dance classes weren't at some prestigious academy of dance or some nationally recognized ballet school. I got my boogie on in a lady's...
Show Business Book Excerpt 2: Destined to Dance
If you look back at your childhood, can you find clues about what you were destined to do with your life? Are you doing it now? Do you wish you were? I swear my kid self intuitively knew a heckuva lot more about the path I should be taking than my rational, practical,...
Show Business Book Excerpt 1: Presenting LONG LEGS AND TALL TALES! Ta Da!
Hello, fellow friends of sequins and sparkle, feathers and fishnets! Who am I? Kristi Lynn Davis--the voice (and the legs) behind the Amazon Best Seller, Long Legs & Tall Tales: A Showgirl’s Wacky, Sexy Journey to the Playboy Mansion and the Radio City Rockettes....