I survived my first official trooping with the 501st New England Garrison at Boston's 105th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, the oldest and second largest in the country. I picked one of the longest and most challenging 501st events outside of the Rose Parade and Celebration as my first event. As a rite of passage I'm ready for anything ( Read more... )

Hampshire Halloween is finally over and I couldn't be happier. Weeks of stress, frustration, joy, and creativity culminated in a pretty darn successful Freak Show (although I never got to see it for myself). Pretty much everything went wrong that could have gone wrong, but magically in the end everything worked itself out ( Read more... )