by Emily Branden | Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting, this space, isn’t it? No opportunities for new memories to form, we experience pause and remember a moment not too far back, when life was different and the connection now, so dear. In normal times we would not reflect on it, a lost thought and...
by Emily Branden | Mar 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
If I look back on my adult life…and the scariest of times, they were defining moments of my character. The decision to move to New York, for acting, when my parents wanted me to teach English. The decision to move to New Mexico, for art, when colleagues warned career...
by Emily Branden | Jan 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
My junior year of college I was selected with another female from our theatre department to drive to Chicago for a film starring opposite Claire Danes. I guess they were looking for an unknown, and my professor sent along our set designer to chaperone and drive us...
by Emily Branden | Oct 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Somehow, I hadn’t planned on any of my students dying before me. Like a mother unable to understand outliving her son, losing Manny has been confusing. Mostly because I don’t want to live on this planet without him. I don’t want to live without his truth and...
by Emily Branden | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m down to the last scraps of bar soap for a shower, and too overwhelmed this morning to even pick up the linens I managed to drop off at the laundry days ago. Thank God I have coffee, and creamer as I write and work through piles on my desk of equally amazing...
by Emily Branden | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I live for summer. I like it hot. Throwing on a dress post swim, adding just lip color to an already sun kissed look. Taking off to some live music under the stars is what life’s made of. That first dive into the pool so precious, I could cry. Traumatized since grade...
