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What I’m into, Spring 2018
April and May were full of rehearsals and concerts and periodic attempts to get into a routine of eating on the porch. Cold weather keeps popping back up in the northeast, but I am optimistic that June...
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Beauty ever ancient, ever new
When I was in high school, shopping was torture. I didn’t know how to dress my shape and I didn’t have much sense of fashion. Still, one of my favorite memories from that time took place in a...
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A Lent of Less
Around this time a few years ago I was trudging through winter weather to get to a rehearsal on a weeknight and I thought to myself “It’s amazing that we ask the same things of ourselves during cold...
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Performing Life
How often are you acting like yourself, instead of being yourself? That was a question I confronted during the first silent retreat I went on, when I was in college. Stripped of words (my usual tools...
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The Greatest Gift
Better exhausted in the evening than bored all day. I’m not sure if I came up with that myself or heard it somewhere, but I often repeat it as I’m crashing into bed at the end of a long day. My days...
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Deep Breaths
I noticed it for the first time during the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil. Despite being focused on a lot of words and a lot of notes, despite being unnerved by singing to an empty chapel on what would...
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One note at a time
Yesterday morning I realized I was cracking up. Out running I reached the point of drenched detachment at which I could look at the last few weeks, and it wasn’t pretty. The weight of everything –...
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Women in Bright Colors
Being dismissed never stops being shocking. Despite experience, expertise and passion in a few different areas, there are still plenty of times that colleagues and acquaintances see me – someone who...
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What I read, 2022
The beach, the library, my couch, my bed, planes, trains and automobiles – I read lots of places this year! Between shedding one of my many extra jobs in January and taking classes that encouraged...
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What I read 2023
After going over my 2022 reading review, I’m not feeling as confident in the quality of this year’s list, despite having reason to read a lot: in 2023 I went back to school to begin doctoral studies...
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