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High Heels and Heavy Suitcases

Just an 🇺🇸 gal living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who found out she had ADHD at 30 and now just cannot stop talking about it!

Tickets to my 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Why Am I (Still) Like This now on sale: https://linktr.ee/highheelsandheavysuitcases

25/11/2024

as if there was ever a chance that I WOULDN’T go see the on opening night in full green?!
20 years of loving this musical & 10 years of painting myself into the wickedest witch there ever was 💚🐸

(If you need me, I will be at the cinema at least once a week until part 2 comes out)

13/11/2024

girlhood is forever.
(even after you turn 35 🎂)

27/10/2024

I 🥨 NY

20/09/2024

7 years ago today I got on an airplane and moved to Scotland. 8 years ago today the idea of moving out of NYC seemed impossible let alone to a whole new country.

I made a little plan for myself in 2017 - settle in, make some friends, find out exactly what a cheeky Nando’s really is, get my citizenship and be back home for good by 2023.

ICYMI, it is almost 2025, so the plan hasn’t exactly worked as I intended. I have big feelings about it that I don’t know what to do with but that’s a problem for another day bc today I’m on an airplane and I’m coming home, not for good and just for a few weeks, but I’m coming home. ✈️ 🤠

(My executive functioning skills are still at an all time low - if you see this pls message me to make plans! And if you’ve already messaged and I’ve not responded I am endlessly apologetic. It will happen. I promise. I am just working with two brain cells and they’re ready to go on strike)

01/09/2024

AMERICA, I AM COMING HOME 🤠 🦅 🇺🇸 🎇
IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS 🫨🫠😶😵‍💫🫣

I am ✨burnt out✨and do not have the emotional capacity or executive functioning necessary to coordinate the way I need to.

I came home for an unexpected week in January 2023 (when these pics were taken) and due to visa issues and a NON STOP 2024 summer I haven’t been back since, this is the longest I have ever been away since I moved. I have a lot of big (and anxious) feelings and am so excited (and overwhelmed).

Please - PLEASE reach out to me. Please go out of your way to make plans with me. I want to see you, I want to see all of you. ALL OF YOU! My brain is beyond fried and I just can’t do the heavy lifting of making it happen.

I will be in Delaware from approximately September 23 - October 5rd and New York from October 6th to October 20th.

(A note - this is a VERY vulnerable thing for me to ask because it feels like a clear opportunity to be rejected, whether directly or indirectly. But I am a very brave, *very* tired young girl of nearly 35 who can face her fears and communicate her need to be loved and supported.

Cant wait to see you. Can’t wait to eat my fav food. Can’t wait to drive a car again. Can’t wait to know all of the songs on the grocery store playlist. Can’t wait to do a USA chant simply bc I can.

25/08/2024

I’ve never been more tired and emotional in my whole life. Thank you for seeing me and loving me, for letting me be my fullest self and wanting more. It’s too big to fit in my brain right now so I need a little time to process.

If you’d like this show to be a part of your life forever, or you’d like to publicly memorialise your thoughts, tomorrow is your last chance to do either: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/why-am-i-still-like-this

I am whatever word is bigger than grateful, that and *fu***ng exhausted*🩵

24/08/2024

Remember when the picked up a story about me added 10 levels of extra drama and then decided to say my show “could be a flop”?!

WELL if a flop is having 90% audience capacity, over a dozen reviewers give a collective 40+ stars, an award nomination, and meeting dozens (hundreds!?) of incredible people sharing their stories, tears, hearts and hope … then ok - guess it was a flop 💅🏻

What a run. What a life. What a joy. What a privilege. See ya at the last show, folks.

What a run. What a life. What a joy. What a privilege. See ya at the last show, folks. It’s gonna be a good one 🩵

*yes I WILL find a way to make merch out of this
**not a comedian, just VERY funny

23/08/2024

That’s it! We’re sold oot! What a way to end this magical three weeks!

If you missed it (or just want to watch again and again) you can buy a ticket to watch it online until August 26th!

You just need to buy the ticket and access the recording link by the 26th, you can then watch whenever and however often you want.

Thank you endlessly for all of the love and support and kindness and encouragement, I wouldn’t be here without it 🩵

22/08/2024

allowing myself the room to dream that my dreams could come true
feels like the same dizzying thrill of pushing all the air out of my lungs
to blow out all of the candles on my birthday cake in one go
it is the exact moment before I fill my lungs again
when it hurts my chest and my face is red and my eyes water
when the wish still feels utterly possible

three more shows. three more chances to live my biggest and most magical life. I can’t wait to share it with you 🩵

19/08/2024

I’ve sold out my last 3 shows and if 164 of you buy a ticket I’ll sell out the next 5!

(Or if 82 of you bring a pal and get the 2 for 1 tickets - I’m not picky!)

Thank you to the nearly EIGHT HUNDRED people who have already come to find out why I am still like this. I can hardly grasp that number.

What a privilege it is to be able to stand on that stage, in front of all of these people and do something special. I am grateful and humbled to be so loved and believed in.

If you’ve come to the show - please tell a friend. If you haven’t yet been, I really hope to see you there - your support is truly life affirming in a way I will never get over. 🩵🩵

18/08/2024

ONE MORE WEEK!

This entire experience is an endless loop of the highest highs and lowest lows all happening at the same time. It is terrifying and exhilarating and humbling and exhausting and joyful and overwhelming and big and magical.

I have 7 more shows and 227 more empty seats to fill, I hope you’ll be in one of them 🩵

(PS - if you’ve seen the show IRL or online, please please leave a review on the website - it helps SO much!)

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A phrase for a lifetime

Somewhere around 2012, I was staying with a friend from college for a weekend. As I climbed up three flights of stairs in my heels, carrying a suitcase, she looked at me and said, “Why are you always in high heels with heavy suitcases!?” HH&HS has sort of followed me from then, in the very literal sense I often find myself my heels lugging around a piece of luggage. But more than that, I’ve added the tagline, “The Balancing Act of Life”, for a reason. Aren’t we all, in some way or another, teetering on 3 inch or higher heels with our hands full of whatever life throws at us? Now, the name has morphed into a very Insta trendy travel blog name, so I thought I would expand upon that. As a New Yorker in Scotland I’m doing my best to see as much as I can for as long as I am here- come join me!