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 | Feb 25, 2021 | Mental Health, Singleness
If you’re like me, resting is hard right now. We are slowly crawling our way out of this pandemical life. But we’re definitely still in it in many ways. When the weekend rolls around, I just want a slice of normalcy. And because I can’t have it, I...
by Mary B Safrit | Feb 18, 2021 | Teaching, The Creative Life
If you’re like me, it’s difficult to maintain work boundaries when living/exercising/working/cooking in the same space. The question of what to do with our non-working time can be challenging when, at least here in the city, many things are still closed. For those of...
by Mary B Safrit | Feb 10, 2021 | Singleness
It’s that time of year again when everyone and their mother is gearing up for the ultimate day of celebrating romantic love. Personally, I’ve never been a fan, even on the few occasions I’ve had a romantic partner with whom to spend the day. It’s not because I’m not...
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 | Dec 29, 2020 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
If you’re like me, this is the time of year when I generally reflect and look ahead to the coming year. Though 2020 has been abnormal, to put it mildly, some traditions help to steady the ship. Here are 20 things I learned in 2020. Given the choice between doing...
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 | Sep 17, 2020 | The Creative Life
A year and a half ago, I sat in my office watching a masterclass. It was 8 pm, long past the time I should have gone home. But there I was, listening to an author named Emily P. Freeman talk about “How to be a Working Writer Without Losing Your Mind.” A friend...
