Going “off-book” is a common theater term that often instills fear and panic in the hearts of actors. It’s the first time you have to set your scripts aside in rehearsal and prove that you have all your lines memorized – when you lose your security blanket and have to blunder ahead, memorized or not.… Continue reading Year 3 of Teaching – the Year I Went Off-Book
Do you feel like the small things have become overwhelming? Tedious? Frustrating? Do you feel tired of the never-ending cycle of dirty dishes, dirty laundry, dirty cars … dirty attitudes? Perhaps the candles have burned down to stubs, the counters and end tables have been piled full of clutter, and last month’s (maybe last year’s??)… Continue reading Humble Enough to Do the Smallest Thing
With the mayhem of directing a show from March until May, time didn’t slow down long enough for me to do my usual monthly review of books read. Now that I have three months worth of books behind me, I thought it best to just pick my top favorites and write reviews on them [the… Continue reading The Best Books of March, April & May
Summers are a funny thing for me as a teacher. On the one hand, I’m simply aching for a break by the time I get to the end of the school year. And I thoroughly soak it up as soon as school lets out (well, as much as you can call the “break” that is… Continue reading A Spontaneous, Intentional Summer
The Vintage Girl 