Musings
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Happy New Year! + Upcoming Performance
Hello friends, and happy New Year! I hope you’re all having a great start to your 2016. xx On January 5th, I’ll be performing in Larry McKenna’s New Voices Cabaret, which was voted “Philadelphia’s Best Special Event” by Broadway World. It’s going to be an incredible night of amazing singing by talented performers, hilarity, and beautiful…
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Why Are We Afraid of Doing Things Alone?
Thank you Mimi Bouchard for featuring excerpts from this post on your online magazine <3 Why does doing something alone seem like such a daunting, scary task? For one thing, when we hear the word “alone,” words like “solitude” and “loneliness” come to mind. Could it be we’re afraid of our own company? Or are we…
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Links I’m Loving: Summer Favorites
Now that August is officially here and there’s a month of summer left *la la la I can’t hear you*, it’s time to indulge in new music and new clothes. I’m also sharing my favorite two social media people that I love and I think you’ll love to. From cartoon therapy, to entering the YouTube world, you’re sure…
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What Makes a Performance Great?
This post is for the theater-lovers, the concert-goers, but most of all, the performers. What is in a great performance? What exactly is it that brings tears to our eyes and chills down our spine when sitting in an audience, listening to a performer pour their heart into a song? What is it that, as a singer, you…
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It’s Monday, Dream Big & Find Your Inspiration
“Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy” As we prepare for a new week of work, school, practice or whatever else you may be engaged with this week (and probably dreading), I wanted to offer some motivation from this scene from Scrubs. Whatever you’re going through or working hard at, I hope this…
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Blogging Anniversary
When I logged into Positive Publicity this morning, I received a notification informing me that it was my three year anniversary blogging. Three years already??? Then Facebook also reminded me that three years ago today, I left to study abroad in London. These notifications immediately took me back to setting up my first blog as I…
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Saturation & Contrast: Filtering Ourselves on Instagram
Instagram is seemingly a world of its own; a universe filled with perfectly filtered selfies, landscapes, food and designer #OOTD. Unlike Facebook or Twitter, Instagram requires more consistency, curation and cleverness in order to make a bigger impact. That impact is most often measured in likes and comments. Social media is fascinating; people truly open…
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Dramatic: One Direction Edition
My day started much like any other day; I woke up hopeful that today would be the day Zayn returned to the On The Road Again tour. Little did I know what was about to happen in just a few short hours would change my world FOURever. I returned from a meeting to the following on…
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Game of Thrones Social Media – A Brief Case Study
Like many, many others, I #love Game of Thrones. I love sitting around the TV with friends on a Sunday evening, anticipating which one of my favorite characters is going to be killed off in this week’s episode (thanks GRRM). Like most television watching I do, I find it to be a very social experience, as it…
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Explaining the Obsession: The Little Monster Effect
Most of you probably know this by now, but in case you didn’t: I *love* Lady Gaga. I hate to use to the word obsessed, because while I could probably tell you where she is, what she’s wearing, and who she’s with right now, I would like to think of my love for her as…