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Some of my favorite and/or most popular posts!
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Pet Hair-Resistant Clothing and Fabrics
Enjoy unlimited furry cuddles with my top pet-friendly picks for fabrics, clothing, and home – No lint roller required! I’m sharing some of the best fabrics and specific clothing and home items I’ve found that have been either completely pet-hair resistant or extremely low-maintenance. Translation: no lint roller required. And everything is washable! Watch my complete review: All of the items mentioned are from Amazon ~ this is not sponsored ~ these are just items that have worked well for me and that I’d recommend to other pet lovers! While this post only includes items from the women’s clothing section, if you’d like a follow-up with items for men or…
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Announcement: Countdown ’til Christmas!
Hi, friends! My children’s Countdown ’til Christmas is now live! I’m making daily videos from Dec 1-24 with singing, reading stories, and talking about traditions from around the world. I hope this will spread a little extra cheer to a very unusual holiday season. It would mean so much if you’d share this with the children in your life! I really hope you enjoy them! The direct link to the full Countdown playlist is here: I created a new YouTube channel, Countdown ’til Christmas, for it. It would help me a great deal if you would subscribe! Subscriptions help the channel grow and others to be able to find the…
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Come Away, Death (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night)
My latest original composition for one of Shakespeare’s songs! I hope you enjoy it! The lyrics to this song come from Act II, scene iv, of Twelfth Night (1602). Duke Orsino and Cesario are suffering from unrequited love and ask Feste to sing this song to ease their pain. Shakespeare’s plays include many songs and dances, but these are often excerpted in modern productions (which is something I hope to help change :)). Very few of the original melodies survive, and some of my past work has been to compose music for the lyrics Shakespeare provided, which I really enjoy doing! If you’re planning an upcoming Shakespeare production and are…
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“Home Enough to Me” (Dean & Brush)
Celebrating a very special person in a very special way: it’s my mom’s birthday! I’m so grateful to have her in my life and to be able to be with her in person this year ♥️♥️♥️ We recorded this music video over the weekend: we had planned to go to a pumpkin patch/corn maze, but they were swamped with people. Instead, we ended up making this in the beautiful countryside near those farms (outside of Milton, FL)! It was so much fun and a special memory to do something like this! This video is part of a #10gloChallenge featuring the music of Dean & Brush! This song comes from their musical The…
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Can’t Help Falling in Love
Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is a very special and personal one; I originally made it as our wedding Save the Date announcement ? Unfortunately, like so many other things, our plans for a larger celebration are postponed due to COVID-19 precautions – but I thought I’d still share this video, as it means a lot to me! Since our engagement anniversary was yesterday, the timing seems perfect ? “Can’t Help Falling in Love” was made famous by Elvis Presley; it was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (according to Wikipedia, the melody is based on “Plaisir d’amour,” a 1784 composition by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini). Thanks to AcoustiClub for this…
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Artistic Philosophy, Background, and Goals
One of the most meaningful experiences I’ve had as a performer – one of the times in life I’ve felt most useful – was in the hospital room of a dying man, surrounded by his family, singing his favorite Gospel songs. I began singing and performing leading children’s roles in musical theatre as a very young child – initially because it was fun, interesting, and something I was good at (Annie was the first dream role I performed). While enjoyment is still a motivating factor, my passion for the work I do (and the way I try to live) stems more from a desire to influence people’s lives for the…
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Sensory Experience: Olfaction
Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics: Multimodal Interaction Analysis. [Assignment prompt: for a day on campus, keep track of your reactions to ambient smells, in differing spaces outside and inside campus buildings. Draw a map that identifies especially pleasant/satisfying smells and especially unpleasant/disturbing smells. Discuss the sites of these olfactory experiences and your reactions.] Monday morning, January 13, 2020: I disembark the Metrobus on the street level below the main lawns of Georgetown’s campus and begin slowly walking downhill toward the Walsh Building. The streets are nearly empty of pedestrians and automobiles in operation. I detect mild scents of earth and dirt, but mostly notice that the air feels thick in my nostrils. It surprises me that…
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NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance
New York University, 2019. Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is the full, live performance of my #NYU Master’s recital! It’s been a lot exciting and fulfilling work to put together this program and to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it! The first half comprises solo sets of some of my favorite musical theatre pieces and a few Neapolitan songs (which I fell in love with when living in Naples, Italy, years ago…). “I Have Confidence” begins at 1:15 Neapolitan set, at 4:55 Unexpected love set, at 16:35 Adventure and longing set, at 25:00 The second half (at 34:00) is a character study of Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady! It…
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Disney Cruise Line blog
One of the highlights of my theatre career has been performing for Disney Cruise Line. In this portion of my website, I’ve re-shared many of my original posts about that experience. I hope you enjoy them! Not only was it incredible to portray characters I’ve loved since my earliest childhood memories (especially Mary Poppins), for the company who originated our modern concepts of these stories, with all that entails (the creativity, talent, and budget to stage productions in such a lavish and magical way; the ability for these performances to reach hundreds of thousands of guests) — it was a special honor to feel that through my work, I was…
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“Tea for Two”
This #WeeklyWednesday is certainly the most special, eventful, and personal one I’ve shared! I hope you enjoy being part of our news! “Tea for Two” was written in 1924 and featured in the Broadway musical “No, No, Nanette,” with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar (though I modified the second verse from his original). My accompaniment is from a player piano! It’s US Roll 42296, originally played by Robert Billings. An especially big thank you to my exceptional #NYU dance instructor, Natalie Wisdom, for her original choreography! We learned this soft shoe for our musical theatre dance course this past semester and I modified it here to…
