I am a stage manager. Because it is what I do best, I’m excited for the opportunity to share my talents at the Christmas Concert at my church. That doesn’t mean it’s easy work though. This concert has consumed my life for the past few days, and today was the first full day of rehearsal.

Last night I had a Christmas Cookie Party to get ready for today. Everyone was sent home with a plate of cookies and told to take them in to work to celebrate National Cookie Day today. Some of my friends reported back with photos of their cookies at work. In general, there was much rejoicing.

I have been extremely lucky since moving to New York to have had very few issues with the roof over my head. This is something that many people in this city cannot say, so I am taking a moment to be grateful. Today I had several friends over to decorate cookies and watch the Rockefeller

What you see here is two people randomly throwing things together to fry then call a fritter. Melanie has chopped apples in her hand. Neither one of us knew what we were doing, and most of our creations weren’t very good. Please note that the time was 10:52pm. We finally stopped frying stuff when the

A little apple in The Big Apple. Today was a very New York Day for me. Very fun. I also celebrated Cyber Monday by buying a new camera. It was really on sale! Hopefully that will mean that the pictures I post will be a lot higher quality. So really, I did it more for