Typically I spend a good amount of time pitching on a project, convincing the producers that I’m the person for the job, that I’ll write the best version of the story. During this time I …
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stay grounded, stay humble, stay insecure
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buns
Little known fact: the scene in Father of the Bride when Steve martin looses his shit at the grocery store and starts ‘removing superfluous buns’ is actually a documentary about my own life, one that …
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Switzerland
A play called Switzerland about a chronically neutral woman who goes on a long planned Switzerland with her two best friends, only to find herself caught between their decades long feud, and for the first …
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Everything Morning
In the span of one morning: I get an email that the results from my follow-up mammogram are available in my online portal, even though I probably won’t be able to decipher any of findings, …
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Goat Cake
It was approximately yesterday that I realized what Goat means, up until that point I just bought into the fact that people were just calling each other Goats, and it was meant to be a …
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a little bird
An actual thought I’ve been thinking lately: I should try and have more thoughts. Like thoughts that aren’t related to kids or something I’ve been contracted to write. Like my own raw, human thoughts. Occasionally …
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family calendar
I want to pass along to my children all of my good qualities, like maniacally finding something special about each and each month of life so that each day is thrilling even if for some …
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Scared to say sorry
Joe takes a toy from Bobbie, she starts to cry. I tell him to say sorry, and he deflates, hides behind a door. I ask him what’s wrong, he says he’s scared to say sorry, …
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Life insurance
The woman from the life insurance company very HAPPILY tells me that their insurance is the BEST life insurance because they have a special CLAUSE that allows my family to access the policy IMMEDIATELY if …
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Breademption
Moments after I complained, my sourdoughn’t became a sourDID. I returned from dinner with a friend, where yes I also complained about my sourdough starter, to find it in its monster state, abundant and doubling …