Baby, it's cold outside, but the reception for today's concert in Chelsea was anything but. The audience gave us standing ovations for both the main show and the encore, and maestro was happy with our performance. My favorite part was looking out at the audience and watching B swaying back and forth with her eyes shut and a light smile on her lips ( Read more... )

Back home after a nearly two-week stint up north for the holidays. The crazy ruled work yet again in November/December, so I've been more remiss than usual in keeping up here. So, life in a nutshell:

~ December concert went quite well. If there are any fans of opera composed by Mozart and Weber out there in the NY-metro area who are up for a ( Read more... )

It's performance time for me again. If anyone is interested in catching opera selections by the likes of Mozart and Weber, check out the Hudson Valley Singers winter show at one of the following venues:

Westchester
Sunday, December 14 at 3pm
Larchmont Avenue Presbyterian Church
60 Forest Park Avenue, Larchmont

Manhattan
Sunday, January ( Read more... )

The table is here, all shiny oak mission style and steeped in family love. I'm sitting at it right now, basking in the joy of having it and no longer feeling ashamed to have guests for a meal. Just want to get a couple of more chairs to use until my aunt buys her new ones and I can bring the other two down. Believe it or not, my kitchen is actually ( Read more... )

Ahhh...sweet November...a month that is at the same time among my most loved and most loathed. It feels good to come up for air after NaNoWriMo and Thanksgiving with 52,809 words written by the 29th and the ability to say that I didn't lash out at anyone in my family this year, despite intentional nastiness from the mom camp ( Read more... )

After spending a chunk of the afternoon in the weeds of transition, I got myself to the halfway point for nano this year.


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I have returned from that place known as the south...though I am happy to say that the typically red state I spent the past three weeks in went blue on election day ( Read more... )

In the immortal words of BNL ( Read more... )

Vacation...what can I say? Vacation was awesome. The perfect mix of keeping busy and not, of being social and staying solitary...it was exactly what I needed to re-charge. Though I wish I could have taken a second week...I have the time, but my projects wouldn't allow it ( Read more... )

Con Edison is repairing a gas line outside my window...rather loudly, I must say. But that is okay because...wait for it...I am on vacation for the next seven days! No work, no stressing about work, and no thinking about work until next Tuesday. A whole week of doing what I want to do when I want to do it and no one to tell me that I can't because ( Read more... )