You can learn some interesting things about a person from their ideal superpower. People who want to be invisible, for example, generally prefer not to be in the limelight. Maybe they’d rather highlight other people, or maybe they have social anxiety (or maybe it’s something else altogether). I was painfully shy as a kid. I […]
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New Year 2017
Goodbye, 2016. I will not miss you. Last year (I do not have words to say how thrilled I am that 2016 is officially past) was so bad, it was all I saw, much of the time. The negative things. The death toll. The election. Stress. My own mental shutdown. But it had its bright moments. […]
Burning Out
I can feel it coming. Burnout tends to follow theatre shows, anyway, and the current one has the longest commute of any to date. So of course this hits when we’re barely halfway through. At least it’s good to know what my limits are. Unless I’m extremely passionate about a show, I likely won’t do […]
Priorities
As I made up my list of goals for this year, I noticed a shift in my priorities. That list is posted over on Anxiety Ink, if you’re curious. (A recap of my Year of Being Crafty, as I dubbed 2015 at the start, will come soon. Spoiler: it was pretty good.) What I want […]
Boston Travel Thoughts
So I spent a chunk of my weekend in Boston for a friend’s wedding-type thing. Boston reminded me of all the things I love and miss about living in a city, as well as the reasons I love living where I am. There’s just no winning with me. Being in Boston – even as briefly […]
Refilling the Well
Oh, WordPress. It’s discouraging when you eat my drafts. The Husband keeps suggesting that I draft in another program. He’s smart like that. I have yet to take his advice. Oh, well. I intended to write a post about my trip to NYC. Because it was amazing. I was going to write about the amazing […]
Grocery Shopping And Culture Shock
I love going grocery shopping in unfamiliar places. Like yesterday, I went grocery shopping in New York – on Manhattan – for the first time. Completely different from home, as home would be completely different for New Yorkers. Grocery stores are familiar on some level, no matter where you go. In France, or Spain, or […]
Update (The Highlights)
Life since my last update: My youngest sister had her baby! She then got married Which happened just a few days after my uncle’s funeral And while I was besieged by The Plague, requiring that I communicate via whiteboard. I have not been writing much (which has a lot to do with the lack of […]
Hope
Normally, I love the first snowfall of the season. But not when it comes on November 2nd and cancels the final performance of an incredibly awesome show. A show that didn’t get recorded last night because of camera issues. If we had the recording, I don’t think I’d be so pissed off right now. But […]
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 