so, I don't really do resolutions. I am constantly setting goals and making lists and fully immersing myself in all of my many plans, so resolutions just don't resonate with me. why wait until the beginning of a calendar to make a plan? that being said, this year, I have a new plan I am resurrecting. ;) I want to strive to read three books a month: one for my work life/creative self, one for fun,...

I'd be utterly lost without my music... lost, I tell you. I've become the unofficial curator of playlists for friends and events--a role I take supremely seriously. And with all of that unabashed devotion to all things musical, comes a demand for some dedicated musical research...  I listen in the shower, at work, when I work out, in the car, as I nod off to sleep. I'm forever shazaaming songs...

2015... done and gone. And it was all kinds of good--what I remember. It all feels like a total blur of transition and travel. I'll avoid being utterly and completely cliche and predictable, and spare waxing poetic about how it had its ups and downs. It was another year, lots of growth and adjustment and tears, outnumbered by even more smiles and wonderful experiences and moments worth being...