What do you do when the world explodes?
Do you hunker down and hope the storm passes?
Do you strap on your survival gear and explore the changes?
Do you hide behind your window and ignore the pretty, pretty disasters?
Me? I disappear and take up a new hobby. 😆 Apparently. With cheese.
I don't know if anyone even comes here anymore because I've been so stinkin’ absent. So...
• Teaching. Like literally, in a school setting. (Creating curriculum from scratch.) I taught several writing classes, a music writing class, geography, even preschool. *gasp* (Not full time. Nope. Too busy teaching my own kids the rest of the week.)
• Running writing contests and playing editor for a couple anthologies.
• Had a son get married.
• Sent a daughter to the other side of the world serving a church mission.
• Graduated a third child.
• Reestablished a Drama Program: from fundraising to tracking down venues to building teams to casting... I've done it all AND wrote the manual for my successors. (Seriously though, 45 pages of best practices.)
• Revised and workshopped MY musical. (Two years and counting, baby!) (“My" is a loose term referring to the Collier team, hubby and myself.)
• Held 2 low-key readings of my musical. (I say low-key, but that included creating rehearsal video for ALL music parts for ALL characters for a TWO HOUR SHOW. 1 to 12 vocal parts per song – let that sink in — and holding rehearsals/coaching sessions for performers. Whew!)
• Mixed 2 hours worth of orchestrations for a live performance. 😶
• Begun casting for a professional staged reading for IMMORTAL THE MUSICAL.
Those are just some of the highlights.
What have you been up to?
Shameless plug: We’re looking for talent local to the Orlando area (singers/actors/sight readers). Know of someone? Send them my way!
Are you hunkering down? Taking the world by storm? Kicking the trash out of your goals? Hanging on by your nails?
