Curtain Calls
Posted by Eric Welch on Apr 19th 2025
The lights are bright.The audience is packed.My heart is beating fast, but I’m breathing through it.
This is it.
No turning back.
Fuck.What if I forget my lines?What if I miss my cue?
I peek through the curtain.My mom and stepdad are out there, front row, ready for a performance they will have no idea how to process. I chuckle to myself—they’re about to witness some pure theatre
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Summer of Shrooms
Posted by Eric Welch on Apr 10th 2025
“Ahhhh…”
I wake up in a cold sweat, head pounding like a bass drum in a tunnel. Vision’s shot—no glasses, no contacts. I’m blind, confused, and feel trapped in my basement apartment, two very different worlds pressing in.
The more that I got into the arts, the more I felt at peace. It felt right.The deeper I got into black market cannabis, the more I felt
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Full Throttle
Posted by Eric Welch on Apr 3rd 2025
I was all in now—deep in the world of local community theatre, and man… what a scene.
The juxtaposition of it all was wild. One minute I’m in the streets, flipping pounds and spending weekends in the club, and the next I’m standing in a circle at a Unitarian church, rehearsing and playin theatre games with a group of actors.
It was surreal.
I kept my worlds separate&m
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The First Step Toward Change
Posted by Eric Welch on Mar 27th 2025
Evolving was something I needed to do.
If I was serious about moving to LA, about living in Venice Beach, about focusing on art, then I had to put my money where my mouth was. The art that was driving me west wasn’t just about drawing or painting—it was acting.
I wanted to explore storytelling, to step into new worlds, to express myself in ways I’d never tried before. The problem
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