A Christmas Carol recording and more!

I have been reading a lot of plays lately and am really excited I recorded five minutes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol today.  I performed in A Christmas Carol in high school and one of my best friends was a Cratchit kid with me; we were the eldest two girls.  I am really excited that I am working on a standard British accent and utilized what I have been working on within this recording.

I donated a cross-stitch piece to my husband's alma mater, St. Olaf, (I am a Luther College graduate) and am really happy someone bought something I made.  I used a picture from a Florida beach trip my husband and I went on years ago and found an app to turn it into pixels and a cross-stitch pattern, and finally added some of Shakespeare's words from Sonnet 116.  Here's some pictures of that project.

Today, I was thinking a lot about the acting I have done and the acting that I hope to be able to do; I want to share a youtube video of a short film I was involved in when I was in my early 20's.  I had my first professional headshots done shortly afterwards and recently had other ones taken.  Here's the headshots and I will put the youtube video under my audio file.

Check out Hannah Pettersen Photography for any family or personal pictures you need!  Here's that short film I was in :)

Happy International Women's Day, everyone!!

Audiobook: My Little Boy part III

Since graduating from college, I have sometimes wondered how and if I will better understand the books that had been assigned to me.  For years, young adult literature has been my favorite genre to read, often perusing the words happily (I am not by nature a fast reader) and finding something cathartic in the process; however, I am now older than the age on which most of young adult literature focuses.

A question I am pondering right now is, what experiences and/or responsibilities must you understand to get the motives of a character of a certain age?  Furthermore: do you need to be an adult to understand adults?  Do you have to travel to Europe to understand European literature or customs?  Do you need to be a parent to understand people who are parents?

Part of the reason I am enjoying recording My Little Boy is that I don't know what it is like to be a father, so getting to voice one is pretty interesting.  In part three, I think the Dad is trying so hard to guide to his son, but his own motives are taking control; I don't completely understand why the Dad is so set against going to the zoo at the time, but I do think he is a little worn out.  He mentions that he is at his "wits' end" after his son's curiosity is so incessantly piqued; I think that is a state to which most readers can relate.  He keeps trying to encourage his son to think about the natural state of the animals, and yet the natural state for the boy is to be playful and imperfectly human.

Here's a link to the audio of my recording for Part 3:

It is a little longer than the previous two parts, and I am thinking some future parts will be just as long.