There’s a lot of reasons why marrying Morrison was the best and most logical thing I’ve ever done, but the most recent one: this toilet training sticker chart that he custom made for Joe (NOTE: …
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Why to marry my husband
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Carrots
I dreamt I had new play, or show? And was presenting it in a conference room to a bunch of executives who were there to give me notes. But the new play, or show? Wasn’t …
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Fear, or Love
A Warner Brother’s exec was quoted saying that the WGA strike will ultimately end because of a ‘love of working,’ but isn’t that a bit pandering and dismissive? Love. A cute and easy word for …
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Drowsy, but Awake
Put your baby down drowsy, but Awake. Make sure they’re tired enough, but not too tired, just tired enough to sleep but not so tired that she can’t. There is a tiny window between success …
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Strike
What’s to say that hasn’t already been said? But would I even BE a writer if I didn’t say what’s already been said a million times, but through the lens of my own experience? Today. …
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Sometimes I don’t know what people are
It’s my time to join the throes of parents keeping little records on their phones of the absurd sort of poetic things that their toddlers say. I ask you, where do the mornings go? And …
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ISO
In Search Of: part time sitter to be with my daughter so that I can be with myself, get my work done, take care of myself, and my other kid, and be a wife, and …
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pins
If it’s ever the apocalypse and you and I are the last people on earth and it’s a battle to survive and one of us must eat the other so you’re hunting me like an …
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the dance
When I’m feeding / holding Bob, I’m constantly doing this dance with myself, feeling super present with her and just taking her in, gazing at her, feeling lucky and moved to tears, but then Bored, …
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This moment
I’m not a crafty person but I can’t resist the baby footprint thing, especially when Joe’s babysitter gave us a little kit for Bobbie. It was a rush job, but we got her done. Now …