For the first time in my twelve years of TV writing, I am RUNNING A SHOW, an adaptation of a beautiful book about female friendship and grief and gift bags and cheese. I feel at once incredibly prepared and ready to meet this career moment, but then also the feeling of being given your baby at the hospital, what do I do now? Is this coming home with me, is this legal? Turns out creating and running a show is a lot like Mothering. It’s equal parts panic and intuition. It’s shutting out the noise and the self-doubt and trusting that gut feeling, protecting the most vulnerable parts. I remember when we were in the trying phase of wanting kids but not able to have them, and it felt endless, I would tell myself, my plays are my babies, and now that we have them, they’ve forced me to grow in ways that feed back into the work. How was your job today Mom? Joe asks after I’ve rushed home in time to get him from school. I think you did wonderful.