Category Archives: Commentary

Where do you find wonder?

I’ve been a bad arts person lately. I haven’t been to see a lot of live shows. A few years back, I lived for going to theater and dance and music. These days I’m lucky if I go to one show every couple of months. There are reasons for this. One is that TV isContinueContinue reading “Where do you find wonder?”

I’m an athlete, right?

Here I sit, the night before family arrives for Thanksgiving. My Tuesday night volleyball team just had a disappointing 3rd place finish in the playoffs, but we still had fun, because we’re awesome like that. I sit in an apartment that needs vacuuming, with dishes to do, and laundry to fold. I have way tooContinueContinue reading “I’m an athlete, right?”

The weekend that wasn’t

I blame summer reading. After finishing some serious stuff like The Nightingale and Into the Wild, I needed something lighter. With perfect timing, a friend recommended The Tradd Street series by Karen White, and I dove in. I should have known, dammit. As soon as I realized the heroine was a gorgeous 39-year-old singleton withContinueContinue reading “The weekend that wasn’t”

A Spooky lesson in confidence

There’s a thing that happens to fat kids. Or at least, it happened to me. Let’s pause for a moment to acknowledge how hard it is for me to write the words “fat kids,” because they are so incredibly fraught with anxiety and shame. They carry – literally – a lifetime of doubt, of fighting toContinueContinue reading “A Spooky lesson in confidence”

Dear Arts Marketers…let’s stop counting occasionally

I’m an arts marketer. This means, among many other things, that I count things. Many things. Everything from website hits to YouTube views to people in the audience to number of times someone asks me “hey, have you ever thought of [insert marketing idea I’ve most definitely thought of]?”. My job is to somehow quantifyContinueContinue reading “Dear Arts Marketers…let’s stop counting occasionally”