Hello, It me

Obvious statement time: I've started a blog!

I've realized that I don't really share details of my life on social media very often. I don't feel like there's a place I'm comfortable sharing personal stuff, but I have so many long-distance friends who I don't want to lose touch with, and as enamored as I am with letters and cards and correspondence, I have decided to make a blog and write it as a series of letters to YOU. This way, if you want to keep up with the things i think and feel and do on a daily basis, you can read these letters to you and know!

And so, to the letter:

Dear friend,

I am doing really well. You may or may not know the dreadful awfulness that has clouded my life for the last year, but if you don't, the specifics are irrelevant, just the knowledge that life has been particularly hard for quite a while. But now, right now, in this moment: I am doing really well.

I have a show and a cast and a character that I love. I have auditions and opportunities coming up and I am starting to make friends, to plant small, seedling roots.

I am learning how to be me regardless, and I'm learning how to be my own safe space. It's a process, and I'm learning.

I have a great new addition in my life that I will write about in our next letter. I am excited and scared and happy about this new addition. (And I am NOT pregnant, so don't start.)

Friend, I am thrilled to report that I am in a place that looks very much like Happy. Perhaps I am just nearby.

I wish you the best of all things, dear friend.
Dear friend, how are you?

Love,
Emily