Last month, I snagged a rush ticket to one of the many, highly anticipated shows hitting Broadway this spring, Second Stage Theater’s production of Take Me Out. A revival of the Tony-Award winning play by Richard Greenberg, I wasn’t overly familiar with the storyline beyond the blurb I read online while grabbing by ticket. Even…
Continue reading ➞ An Afternoon at the Theater without my Phone
Don’t sleep on your local bookstore for author events and book signings! I attended two memorable events last month through bookstores, big and small. Earlier this week, I went to the first in-person event since Covid at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square…and y’all, it was a winner! The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon…
Continue reading ➞ Jimmy Fallon & Seth Meyers & Children’s Books, Oh My!
Seven years ago this week, I was here in NYC on vacation and knocking so many firsts off my bucket list — devouring the famous cronut, witnessing my first real snowfall, enjoying NYC pizza, seeing my first Broadway shows and attending my first TV talk show tapings. It was a trip I’ll never forgot for…
Continue reading ➞ TV Taping Tickets 101: How to See Your Favorite Talk Shows for Free
I’ve definitely been living my best life so far in 2022, from the Jason Bateman weekend of weekends to seeing some of the biggest shows on Broadway. The one thing I hadn’t thought twice about in years has raised some eyebrows from the people around me, though. Could I really be doing these things alone?…
If you’ve been following my adventures, you know this weekend was essentially my Super Bowl. I may be utterly exhausted, but my heart is bursting with joy. And unlike the actual Super Bowl, everyone’s a winner. The weekend was such a whirlwind that it’s all starting to blur together and the individual stories from each…
Continue reading ➞ It’s time to talk about the SmartLess shows
I’ve come down enough from last night’s event to actually put together a coherent recap, so let’s do it. Jason Bateman was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (Harvard University’s theater group) Man of the Year for 2022. The event was held at Farkas Hall on the Harvard campus. The theater was tiny, I think it…
T-minus 5 days until I hit the road to see Jason! Two years ago, I was planning to celebrate my 40th birthday in LA with a dear friend and an evening with Jason Bateman. ❤️ We had tickets to an Ozark event at the Dolby Theater with the cast of the show as the third…
When faced with a difficult decision, we go straight to asking ourselves and others, "What should I do?" Well, I'm here to say, who cares what you should do, what do you want to do? What would make you the happiest? Let's do that. We can get so caught up in the shoulds – I…
How many of you have ever had a entire conversation with someone without realizing you were talking about two different things? Maybe you assumed you knew what the other person was talking about, and turned out to be wrong. Or vice versa. How does this kind of thing happen? Well, if you've ever heard this…
New Years Day is around the corner, and everyone is talking about their New Years Resolutions. And yet, how many of us have signed up for a gym membership on January 1, just to fall off the wagon come March? Or how many times have we all said we'd start that diet on the proverbial…
