My piece is now available via Public Radio Exchange. 

You can listen to Sealed here: http://www.prx.org/pieces/48286-sealed

Accounts on PRX are free (and awesome).

I keep a notebook with me all the time to jot down ideas/thoughts for projects. Not my journal... just a "one day, when I get time, I will do this" sort of thing. When I fill a notebook, I go through it and record good ideas and get rid of dumb ones.

On November 19, 2008, I wrote:
humanist perspectives on divorce?
4 perspectives on the divorce for an audio documentary a la NPR
David. Crys. Derek. Colleen. Mom/Dad? 
Using journals/letters/etc.

I'm so glad that came to me. A year and a half later, my life is so much better for having that idea.

Here I am. I have crossed to the other side of the mammoth project that devoured every moment of free time I've had over the last four months. 

I successfully submitted Sealed to Emerson College on April 28th. My piece played for the Emerson community and invited friends and family on May 6th. And in a few days, I waltz across the stage of the Wang Theatre in flowing black robes.

This all went so fast.

I am experiencing a bout of producer's depression. Don't get me wrong. I am so happy to be done with my piece and I am even happier to report that it has been extremely well-received. But when you pour all your emotional energy into producing something, spending hours and hours tweaking things that most people won't even notice, when you finish... you feel... 
...well... 
finished. 

I am having trouble writing a formal description of the piece. I will be submitting Sealed to the Third Coast International Audio Festival very soon and I just can't muster up a catchy characterization. 

My family is coming to Boston for commencement and I will be playing the piece for my siblings. I am recording their initial reactions. You can only get first impressions once, right? If good things come out of that conversation, I'll post an edit here as a sort of epilogue. Speaking of posting. After my siblings hear the piece this weekend, I will make the piece public. Sealed will be on PRX (Public Radio Exchange) next week.

Up to now, the theme of all my posts here have been project-related. Now we switch gears to finding a way to get PAID to do the work I love. Not so easy a task. Though I am very fortunate to have a full-time gig in the journalism department at Emerson, I want to situate myself squarely in the public radio sphere. So now I get to chronicle the job search. 

I am working my contacts and using every creative bone in my body to find at least vague connections. I haven't scored any interviews yet, but I have various producers answering my emails. That's a start. I have thrown my hat in the ring for various positions throughout New England... drum roll, please...

• Assistant Producer, The Fishko Files, WNYC
• Assistant Producer, Soundcheck, WNYC
• Intern, This American Life
• Member Services Coordinator, WBUR
• Executive Administrator & Budget Coordinator, NPR Public Interactive
• Production Coordinator, WGBH
• Radio Production Assistant, WGBH
• Morning Producer, WNPR 
• Associate Producer, StoryCorps