by Mary B Safrit | Mar 4, 2021 | How-to's, The Creative Life, Uncategorized
On March 17th, I started working from home. It was the first official day of New York City’s “Pause,” and I had one strategy in mind–power through. Surely this thing would last 1-2 months tops and everything would go back to normal. I just needed to hunker down...
by Mary B Safrit | Jan 28, 2021 | How-to's, Mental Health
I am neck-deep in post-production for ye olde podcast. This entails making approximately 80,000 decisions, writing and recording the intros and outros for each episode, managing editors and deadlines, writing copy for the episode descriptions, planning social media...
by Mary B Safrit | Oct 29, 2020 | How-to's, Singleness
I heard a story recently about an older woman who lived alone. She fell in the middle of the night and couldn’t get up. Instead of calling for help immediately, she waited for hours until she knew people would be awake. “She said that she didn’t want to bother...
by Mary B Safrit | Oct 21, 2020 | How-to's, The Creative Life
In my time auditioning for musicals and operas as a professional singer, I got exactly one call back. Auditioning success, as with much creative work, is a combination of the practice of resiliency, a numbers game, knowing people, and what can feel like dumb luck. And...
by Mary B Safrit | Oct 1, 2020 | How-to's, Relationships and Community
It is an overwhelming time to be a person. Wildfires, persistent and systemic racial injustice, a pandemic, the upcoming election. On top of the psychological and emotional taxation of these realities, we have our own personal lives to live. We continue to work or...
by Mary B Safrit | Aug 27, 2020 | How-to's, Relationships and Community
Friendships can feel tenuous at the best of times. Someone gets a job and moves within a month. Someone starts a dating relationship and disappears into the ether. When things change and friendships shift, it can be challenging to talk about that kind of loss. But if...
