![]() Chat’s seminar and, sure enough, Owen breezed through all of them. Many hoops had to be dominated before you earned an invitation to Mr. Chat is the ex-blue-Power-Ranger, discoverer of Taylor Lautner, trainer of Black Eyed Peas, Usher & Jaden Smith (Karate Kid) & all-around martial arts performance badass. There was a very desirable children’s seminar coming through Vegas featuring Mike Chat, founder of XMA Xtreme Martial Arts (a performance-based mix of dance & martial arts). Owen talks of writing and directing and especially, acting.Īt six-years old, Owen competed in Taekwando as a tiny tiger, earned his black belt at age eight and competed regionally and nationally. Yes, it was about Lincoln’s assassination and he took it very, very seriously there was a big hat and water gun involved and their high school aged foreign exchange student co-starred. At 5, he made his second movie after visiting The Lincoln Memorial. He enrolled in Little Shakespeare, an after-school acting, performance and interaction class, and was chosen as the lead in their movie SOUP MAN Rhondda suspected it was because he could remember his lines but he nailed his lines every single time, he was in every scene. In preschool, he would lead his fellow classmates in battle of the pirates and assigned a role to each child, he was Jack Sparrow of course, and his peers followed his direction and production into serious role play. He directed and starred in his first movie at 3-years old lined up cars with dolls and created a traffic jam, pretended to be his daddy and shook his hands at the gridlock, he requested his mama to film it. Why? So his ship didn’t get lost in the night. A pirate ship mural was painted in his bedroom with Owen as his favorite character, Captain Jack Sparrow, although he knew there was something amiss. A true MAMA & son collaboration with a sprinkle of dad & the dogs' participation, too, their Purim intent has grown year after year. His role-playing dedication even fooled a woman he had seen daily since he was a baby, she still tells that shock&awe story of when she awarded “Gandalf the Grey” Best Costume and little Owen debuted from under his wizard’s hat. ![]() Crafting & hot gluing & tailoring apparel into his favorite characters (all Johnny Depp with a few others), Owen took on these impersonations in an unexpectedly authentic way. She loves Purim (a Jewish annual celebration where games are played and costumes are worn) and her toddler son followed suit, Owen was serious about his dress-up wardrobe and his creative MAMA did not disappoint. Rhondda loves creativity, she's been constructing dreams all her life she grew up in LA and taught high school dance, choreographed & directed competitive dance teams, performed in half-time shows for The Clippers & USC games and even dabbled in eighties glam rock music videos. “How? I want in! Mama, please, in there, now…” Owen articulated, captivated by the tiny screen. At the age of 2 1/2, during a flight to Montreal, Rhondda decided then would be a baby’s first Owen had never watched television before but what better opportunity than during a five-hour flight? She was prepared, Thomas the Train DVDs + player ready to go. She nursed him for two years and sang to him every nursery rhyme, poem and song she knew. Rhondda Stark Atlas’ miracle baby & Vegas son had arrived. Nine months later, after her first & only round of IVF, Owen Atlas was born. She knew science well yet her spirituality was far louder than the doctor’s decline it will happen, it will take…her inner-voice assured her that she would become a 43-year old mama of a newborn. I’m sorry, but I can’t take your money,” the fertility specialist told her husband, “the science is right here, look at the test results, there’s just no chance.” But there is a chance, she thought to herself as she sat there, the Las Vegas doctor’s words reverberating through her mind, I know there’s more than a chance…there’s a certainty.
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