by Mary B Safrit | Mar 20, 2019 | Parables, Relationships and Community
I’ve been called a robot on several occasions. One such occurrence was after watching the movie version of Rent with my BFF when I was fifteen. She was boohooing, because the movie is quite sad, and I sat there thinking, “Wow, this is quite sad.” As...
by Mary B Safrit | Mar 13, 2019 | Mental Health, Parables
I am not a sore loser. It’s just that I prefer to win, and when I don’t I get furious. Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation I like winning almost as much as I like mac n cheese and efficiency. I recently took a knock off StrengthsFinder test (because I...
by Mary B Safrit | Mar 6, 2019 | Parables, The Creative Life
We’re going back to a tale from the days of yore, aka my time auditioning for shows. In the musical theatre world, it is not enough to be able to sing and act and look exactly like whatever the casting director happens to have in mind, one must also be able to...
by Mary B Safrit | Feb 27, 2019 | Parables, The Creative Life
I came out of the womb with toned calf muscles. That’s how my mother tells it, anyways. Nine months of turning and kicking and out comes one jacked baby. Me. Moving right along to childhood, I was too dense to float. My mom was a swimming instructor with the Red...
by Mary B Safrit | Feb 20, 2019 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
When I was fifteen, I first realized that I was a little judgy. OK, maybe a lot judgy. And also a perfectionist. I was on an Episcopal Youth Retreat, in spite of much protestation. When I signed up, I didn’t realize that it conflicted with some pretty major high...
