I've Been: Winter 2018/19

• playing Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream

• hosting the Chicago edition of The Hanukkah Hoedown!

• feeling more lonely than I ever have in all my life

• wondering why some people are absolute jerks

• letting go

• accepting

• endeavoring to reveal my inner self

• Writing writing wrting...

• freezing my ass off in Chicago

• "Chicago-ing"(at Steppenwolf, the Art Institute, IO Improv night, Magnificent Mile and many more wonders)

• baking paleo bread

• participating in a really interesting and genre-busting play-reading of The Block Association Project with a phenomenal group of talents

Reading:

•  So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder 
•  The Nightengale's Sonata
• The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
• New Family Values by Andrew Solomon
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Why You Are Who You Are from The Great Courses
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown



My sisters!

• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

• recording a cut song from Fiddler on the Roof titled 'Marry for Love' (which was ultimately replaced by 'Matchmaker') with Roslaind Harris and Neva Small (Tzeitel and Chava from the Fiddler motion picture, respectively!)
  

with Rosalind Harris and Neva Small

• hosting friends from far away (both named Alexandra)

• reuniting with my Fiddler family at 54 Below!

• re-connecting with old friends who live locally!

• hanging with MamaSilbs

• and (shockingly, surprisingly... in THE most unlikely of places and circumstances) falling in love... 

Him. <3