The Enchant Me Podcast

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. Not only did I enjoy the book - which, by the way, is a page-turning modern gothic mystery - I...

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 to attend a realtor Open House at the house where I spent my teen years. Decades later, I...

Hidden gems are everywhere if we keep our eyes open. Today's excursion takes us to New York City's Flower District: one single block in Midtown Manhattan that guarantees to impress and to likely transport you to an outworldly place of beauty and surprise. Tucked on West 28th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, we went looking for inspiration for color and DIY ideas where everyone "in the know" goes for anything floral or greenery-related. We spent the morning among florists, wedding and...

Hi guys. Today marks a very special day - Episode 103 Day! Thanks as always for checking us out, we know you have a lot of choices in podcasts and we are truly appreciative that we chose to listen. In this episode we decided to try something a little different than most of the artist dates we have lined up and 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...

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 Art Day, which as it turns out, is a real thing. It seems we now have a "day" for everything:...

Hi everyone, and thanks for stopping by. This marks the very first episode of The Enchant Me Podcast and I'm super excited to be here and to get started. Before I dive into the premiere, I want to mention that you can read all about how the podcast came to be here. In a nutshell, each week I'll be going on a different excursion that is meant to keep the creative juices flowing and to help me live a more creative life. The first episode takes us back to post-Edwardian England as my mom and...