Making Christmas cookies with my daughter was on my bucket list for the year. I haven’t quite figured how to let her “help” in the kitchen because I don’t have a safe way to put her at counter height (she won’t tolerate high chair confinement long and doesn’t have enough coordination to trust the step […]
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Mixing Extremes
Saturday was crazy! An awesome sort of crazy, even if it totally kicked my ass. (Yeah, it did.) My day started with a workshop. A local theatre offers occasional master classes, and that day they held an audition boot camp. Which was exactly as advertised. Intense and amazing, and I was more than a little […]
My Year Of Being Blonde
It’s been a bit more than a year since I chopped off all my hair and bleached the token length left. I don’t know if I’ll go quite that short again, but the blonde has been fun. Some people who think they’re so clever and witty when they ask if it’s true that blonds have more […]
Festival Season
In the short times I visited and lived in Japan, one of my favorite things was the festival culture. Like the way even the tiniest of villages has something it’s famous for, every place has its festivals. (I’m serious. It’s really strange to come from a tiny town on the coast of Maine and suddenly […]
Melissa Burkart 