At 7 p.m. last night I was walking, again, to Guitar Center, on a mission to buy yet another cord — The Cord, I so hoped, that would finally solve all my problems and let me hear the beautiful nothingness of a clean room tone. It was getting late, the day had been totally wacky,…
Yesterday was a long and discouraging day, trying to get my studio up and running. I urgently need to get back to work — well, I urgently needed to be back at work a few days ago — but I’m not recording yet. It’s never seamless to move a studio. Despite considering in the month…
There are so many things I could have shared about my first week in New York — details of the new apartment, when we slept on an air mattress and there was nothing to sit on but the floor or overturned cardboard boxes; finding a great, cheap sushi restaurant, enjoying a sublime Columbian brunch of “divorced…
Sunday morning. Almost everything I own is packed in boxes heaped in my small, open kitchen/living room. I’m sitting at the breakfast bar drinking a cup of coffee next to the big kitchen windows, which have been stripped of their curtains, making it easier to see the backyard of lush green bushes and grass, and…
I’ve had such an incredible amount of support over the last few days, that even though yes, I am overwhelmed, and yes, I failed in an important endeavor (getting a book done for someone who gave me an opportunity), and yes, I am exhausted, and yes, I am anxious, I am so very grateful that…
Where I am tonight: Coming up against my limits. There are still things left on my list of things to do. First priority is finishing an audiobook before I leave for New York, and I realize that’s not going to happen. My voice is tired, my body is fatigued, my eyes are burning. I’m going…
Today I said goodbye to still more Portland friends. (I’ve had more coffee dates, lunch dates, and dinner dates in the last month than in the last two years, as I’ve been getting ready to leave full-tine life in Maine.) My conversations have been interesting and heart-felt, and two of the talks I had with…
My status update on Facebook, posted a little over an hour ago, reads, “Considering writing a “moving to New York to expand the possibilities of an adventurous life” blog. This scares and excites me.” And it does! My scant blog posts in the past have taken hours of careful crafting and revision, and even then,…