news: joy just because

Joy Just Because is a weekly note from me to you. It also doubles as my mailing list for show and project announcements.
It's short and sweet, always free, and always written by me.

Becoming something else

Now I am changing, becoming something else
A creature of longing, tending only to myself

Perfume and Milk
Florence & the Machine

I have spent several hours over the past couple days writing what I can only describe as something…

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The day got away from me

I had all my usual intentions to sit down and write today, and alas, it is 9:20pm and my best laid plans and I are sitting here giving each other the side-eye. Summer has arrived at my house this week…

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In pursuit of joyful abandon

I have secretly always wanted to dance. When I was five I told my mom I wanted to try figure skating. She suggested I try hockey instead. No shade to my mom, because hockey is still a massive passion of…

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Offering up what we can

I am singing in a vocal group again after several years’ hiatus. God, I missed it. Plainville United scratches that itch really well, but we only have one or two shows per year and don’t meet regularly otherwise. This new…

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I'll take it all

My brain is a jumble, but I am happy. My kids have a thousand different needs and wants and plans and no understanding of how much work I have to do to manage those thousand needs, wants, and plans, but…

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