- Basking in short hair!
- Taking great joy in doing even the littlest of tasks with excellence
- Learning to totally rock Self Care:
- Allowing people to help and love me
- Sleeping (like an Olympic Sleep Gold medalist)
- Introvert-ing (like a pro)
- Journaling constantly
- Enjoying Paleo delights (like my homemade Paleo granola whuuuut)
- Detoxifying my home (welcome Himalayan salt lamps!
- Still meeeeeelting in the NYC summer heat.
- More health rumbling. Oof.
- Having a blast singing "Oh My Mysterious Lady" with Tony Sheldon for the Transport Group's Peter Pan in Concert
- ...and connecting with some incredible friends
- The camaraderie of the dressing room, combined with the feeling of true belonging after all these years was very powerful. And true. It is possible to be true to yourself in this business and in this world. The Transport Group often reminds me of that.
- Returning to London. Again. Ah beloved home away from home.
- Witnessing my oldest and best friend, Tony-nominee Michael Arden get married.
- Reading Sonnet 116
- Dancing the night away
- The entire "congregation of heathens" wearing matching onesies
- ...and singing along with Darren Criss (as he plays 90s songs on guitar... in the forrest... everyone singing along...in the onesies...)
- Doing magical spells in the forest
- Reuniting with my oldest friends on earth
- Engaging in not one but three costume changes
- Seeing glorious Bath
- ...with old and new friends
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| Alexandras take EUROPE! |
- International Alexandra Sister trip!
- Seeing my lady-pals in Showboat at the New London! I wept!
- ...then grabbing a proper catch-up and feast after the show.
- Writing lots and lots of postcards! It is so wonderful (and easy!) to send simple missives of love and thoughtfulness via good ol' snail mail.
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| The leading ladies of Showboat |
- SEEING HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IN THE WEST END AT THE PALACE THEATRE AND GASPING AND CLAPPING AND LAUGHING AND WEEPING.
- Going out with the cast of Harry Potter after the show. Fabulous and bizarre. Making some new pals! Reuniting with old ones! (Ah the theatre! The great democratizer of the arts!)
- Being met and flooded with the WEDDING PARTY!! And making a NIGHT of it. (A hostess said in total earnestness "Are you with the group of 'kind of famous' Americans...?" I was. And we were clearly on #BRAND).
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| My Anatevka Family forever |
- Trekking through the grounds of Alexandra Palace after lunch with Bev and Tomm and feeling more at peace than I have all year. True friends are healing.
- Being bold and reaping the emotional and energetic rewards. Fortune favors the brave.
- Seeing my dearest Pineapple and friend Michael Bernardi fulfill his destiny as Tevye on The Broadway stage (not to mention actually SEE my own show!!)
- Weekending in Bucks County with my friend and Julliard voice teacher and dear friend Doc White.
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| SO. THAT HAPPENED. |
- More reading!
- Books that Have Made History by Professor Rufus J Fears
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
- The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Becoming a Great Essayist by Jennifer Cognard-Black
- Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by Strunk & White
- Falling in love with Tzeitel all over again...
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| Ahhhh August... |
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