I’m about to do something I rarely get to do: just sing. I know; I sing all the time, but usually I’m writing a script too, or learning lines. Not this time…

And consistency is a kindness. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I don’t want to practice!

I think a lot about service, about the idea that we’re here for one another, that if someone needs upholding, we do the holding up. We all have the service gene, however uniquely it manifests. My husband John, my Silver Fox, has it; for the past 20 years he has served in our federal government as a special agent in Criminal Investigations with the Treasury Department, and last week he retired.

Two months’s summer travel is, I know, a great luxury, and I joke that in our solid middle age we took a gap summer, as opposed to the now-normal collegiate (or not) gap year with a backpack. We wore the backpacks, and we discovered a few things along the way.

When a city bears your name (or you bear some version of its), you have to visit.

Dublin! I love this city and it’s grand altogether, as they say.  Here are some of my favorite things  with these favorite people from our first week of this incredible two-month-long vacation

Whose woods these are, well, I thought I knew. Our beautiful Into The Woods got squashed by the Covid giant; I went down hard.

I have never felt anything like what I did when I walked out onto the stage of Feinstein's 54 Below on the night of September 8, 2021.

For me, holding onto my art is how I cope, how I maintain my exuberance and fight my sadness, it’s my way forward. It’s what I wish.

You know that moment when you're really close to the finish of something and then start to ... doubt? I do.

It’s early September. At my sister’s restaurant in Colorado her team wipes layers of wildfire ash from outdoor tables and batten down the hatches for a pending snow storm. 2020, you beast.

The theater industry: first to shutter, last to open. People who are stunningly good at what they do have no work. So they’re pivoting.

I love that my friend Vibecke doesn’t see obstacles - she sees only opportunities, and not just for herself.

This big birthday is about choosing to put one foot in front of the other while accepting the uncertainty of being in the world. It’s about leveling up.

Josh Dinar’s words are an “act of kindness, of generosity, of patience” that I hope bring you some inspiration and sustenance when both those things feel scarce.

An ode to a best friend, and to a lot of socks: why gratitude is my 2020 word.

We’ve been back in NYC just about a year, and it’s been, well, very New York. And I can’t help but notice how different things are in the biz.

Singing the music of Larry O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin in “I Remember It Differently” at 54 Below!

Some of Madame President’s past and present favorite things.

Maybe what we want is on the other side of our fear.