So much has happened this month! Here are some of my favorite photos of students who just wanna have fun: Tori and Briana collapse on break during SVC rehearsal (long week! right before Fall break and they'd already had SU Orch that day). And Sarah and Tessa relax after their lovely recital, for which they were stressed out- meaning they are growing up. I started chemo the same weekend as the SVC gig and it was so nice to be surrounded by sweet students and colleagues duri

I've been searching for a metaphor to help me get through this cancer journey I find myself on. A friend of mine who's a breast cancer survivor said she thought of it as a river. Before I had my port installed yesterday I was imagining a dark river at night that I was being pushed into- so much unknown. The port was the beginning of this murky journey. But then yesterday morning I was looking at our retreat photos for courage and I shifted my metaphor to our creek. You