‘Tis the season…for all the Help Wanted and Now Hiring signs. Welcome to tourist-land! Each sign and job posting I see makes me wonder: could I do it? Would I want to? I’m approaching an entire year of this “full time mom and creative” gig life and while Western culture has a greater awareness now […]
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As Long As I’m Living, My Baby You’ll Be
My baby daughter is a toddler. Yes, I still call her my baby and she still is a baby in many ways, but she’s also a toddler. Each day, she looks more and more like the older child she’s growing into. (Note: I initially wrote this on the eve of her first birthday as a […]
What Is This Year?
I like to assign themes to things like years. And this year has so far shaped up to be my Year of Being Introverted. With so much going on, I’ve been largely in shut down mode. But now things seem to be turning around. A writer-friend came up for a long weekend of awesome, which kicked my ass […]
Grammy King
I have come to the conclusion that 2016 is actively trying to die in a fire. Or kill us all. Not much of a difference, really. Posts have been piling up on me: my birthday (come and gone), observations, rants (though nothing new to add to the Dear Asshat series). But the true shit-show that […]
Seasonal Confusion
Seasons cling in Maine. My corner of Maine, anyway. They’re slow to change. They can be subtle and take their time coming in and are often reluctant to go out. Twice a year I forget which season we’ve left, which we’re in, and which we’re changing into. They come in the spring and fall while […]
A Reason For Silence
I take a long, long time to work out the things that upset me. And 2016 has been one hell of a year for upsetting things. It’s taken me weeks to figure out this blog-silence. It wasn’t the traveling – which was great, if exhausting – or the fact I had a couple roles in […]
Why I Write
I’m currently savoring my way through Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook and came across a section that made me question why I write. Telling stories seems to have always been a fact of life. Somewhere, I still have notebooks filled with a toddler’s illiterate scrawl in crayon rainbows. My grandmother still tells me I can stop breathing […]
The Devil’s Puppet Show
Oh, Internet. I have so much to tell you! Potential theatre-related opportunities are cropping up in the strangest (and best) of places. They may amount to nothing, but just the experience of trying will be priceless. Dracula has been insanely popular. Even our “slow” nights draw decently sized audiences. An iconic story like Dracula performed […]
A Note On Breakdowns
A curious thing happened after my last post: I had friends and family checking up on me. Which is not to say I didn’t appreciate hearing from every single one of you. You are all amazing and I am honored that you care about me. Thank you for that. ♥ I almost chose not to […]
Having Fun?
In our latest Nostalgia Adventures, our heroine spent the weekend in a high school theater reliving the glory days watching some amazingly talented kids and writing. (Seriously, high school was relatively good to me, but, uh, no turning back the clocks, ok? Daylight Savings is bad enough, and visiting high school only helps me appreciate […]
Melissa Burkart 