The Enchant Me Podcast

I’m not sure when I became a fan of Mike Birbiglia , but looking back at his IMDB profile it seems that the first thing I saw him in might have been  Going the Distance  with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, who very cutely dated for three years back in the earlier 2000s. I don’t think I knew who he was back then, but going back and watching it again, I remember his character as the waiter (I’ve ha...

Once again, I attempt to restart and reinvigorate something I started a long time ago. This time, it’s The Enchant Me Podcast . I started this podcast back in 2018 when podcasts were gaining popularity as a medium, but before they exploded and everyone and their grandmother had one. Come to think of it, if my grandmother was still around, I would love to have had the chance to podcast with her. Sh...

Writing and publishing a book is no small feat, so when my friend announced that he was doing a book signing for a novel he had written, I knew that not only would I go to show support for his accomplishment, it was also a perfect artist date to take myself on.  A book can be many things to many people, and this book is the tangible result of a writer setting a creative goal and sticking to it. No...

Revisiting the past can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Reminiscing about the good old days is something we all do, but what if your “good old days” weren’t so good? Are our memories an accurate representation of what really happened, or do they, over time, become the stories that we’ve told ourselves so many times that they’ve become our reality? That’s the answer I was after when I decided...

Tucked on West 28th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues lives something special. I went looking for inspiration for color and DIY ideas where everyone “in the know” goes for anything floral or greenery-related. I spent the morning among florists, wedding and event planners, anxious hosts, excited brides-to-be and helpful shopkeepers all with one goal in mind: to explore the thousands of species of...

In this episode I decided to try something a little different than most of the artist dates I had lined up to escape the cold winter weather that we’d been experiencing. As the title of this post gives away, our time today was spent in a Chair Yoga class with a very interesting and mysterious octogenarian, Carolyn. So take a listen, and hear how I was reminded to keep always keep our minds open to...

One of the unexpected benefits of this little adventure into podcasting has been happening since I have started chronicling my artist dates. Being a bit of a planner, it’s been interesting to see how many cool things there are to do in just a couple of hours and that was definitely the case with this episode. I’m no stranger to Philadelphia’s  The Barnes Foundation , but I was a stranger to Slow A...

The Enchant Me Podcast was born from the concept of the ‘artist date’ which is one of the tools for increasing creative capacity and inspiration found in the well-known book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. Basically, the idea is to take yourself each week on a one or two-hour ‘artist date’. The date can be any activity that interests you, or better yet, any activity that  enchants you. In eac...

This was the very first episode of The Enchant Me Podcast that was released in March of 2018. The episode takes us back to post-Edwardian England as my mom and I visited a live exhibition of the beloved PBS show, Downton Abbey . We day-tripped to New York City to experience the  Downton Abbey: The Exhibition . Part museum, part memory lane, and all dramatic enjoyment, the exhibit showcased many as...