09/05/2026
Well apparently I’ve decided that this year wasn’t busy enough. 😃😎🤪
I’m incredibly excited to tell you that I’ve been cast in a dramatic role in a new original play!
I’ve done performance-based art before but I haven’t actually been in a play since high school… and truthfully if I’m being honest it didn’t exactly require a tremendous amount of acting. So this is very much outside my comfort zone. I am equal parts excited and honoured and maybe slightly terrified. Nerves? I don’t know. Whatever it is, I’m jumpy about it. lol.
The play is this incredible original dramatic work and I really hope I can do the role justice. There is something so exciting about being sort niave (but somehow it feels like in a good way) like stepping into something unfamiliar but giving myself permission to learn and just enjoy the discovery. So yeah! That’s a cool thing that’s happened!
And then there’s the small matter of everything else happening this year…
Teaching at the university, launching CanArt with Brandon, parenting three kids and getting everyone where they need to be, and helping care for my dad, who is going into surgery next week.
So yes. I am VERY excited about this.
I am also quietly wondering if I have lost my damn mind.
But mostly…. I’m proud of myself for saying yes to something that kinda scares me a little.
Here’s to trying new things, stretching ourselves and occasionally being dramatically attacked by campfire smoke. Swipe to the last photo for a fairly accurate representation of how I anticipate this year going. lol. I’m going to have fun doing it all but I might not come out without tears running down my cheeks.
I can’t wait to share more about the play as we get closer.
With love, Annie
Ps thanks as always to my copilot and BFF Brandon Schmitt for hitching your wagon to this…. Whatever this is *gestures to oneself.. ?
