Category: Performance

  • All the World… and a Stage

    Last Thursday I flew home from Walt Disney World. It was my 21st trip. My first trip to Disney was in 1988. My parents, my brother, and I took the sleeper train from the Northeast to Florida. At the time, there were only two parks open: Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Six years later, when I…

  • The Lights of Broadway

    I spent 13 years of my life driving into New York City. Because I grew up in Central PA, pretty far from any city, the thought that over a decade of my life was intimately connected to NYC, still awes me. Though my husband likes to joke that I’m now a Jersey girl, I’m not.…

  • Music, Friendship, Belonging

    Singing has always been my escape. High school presented a lot of challenges for me – especially socially – and my choir class was the one place where I could get lost for a while, sinking into the choral music or the show choir or the spring musical. As I dealt with academic stress, relentless…