Hollywood can feel like a Template Movie Making Machine, and I am proudly and ashamedly part of it. Sometimes I’ll see a headline in the news and I can see myself three years in the …
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movie making machine
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Away Message
Sorry I can’t respond to you right now. I’ve just realized that there will come a point in time when I’m not supposed to kiss his elbows, or smell his ears, or squeeze his thighs, …
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the mouth
My shared workspace has gone maskless for the vaccinated and all of the sudden everyones mouths are out and they feel private and aggressive and wrong and strange. I go to the bathroom and turn …
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people don’t change
I wrote a short play at some point in grad school or after grad school called People Don’t Change, they just Change their Hair and I think about it every time I decide to change …
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Number Bun
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do you guys want more
One of the many things I learned from our years of trying to have Joe is to never ask anyone if they’re thinking of having kids, or thinking of having more kids, and to instead …
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Carolina Pie
Do you have to leave a place to realize you were a part of it? I didn’t truly feel like I was FROM North Carolina until I left for grad school in New York. Growing …
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we don’t know
I can’t stop thinking about how the poor people in the Surfside building were at least probably asleep when its walls shook them down further into their dreams. And this morning, while literally completing work …
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More
I’ve listened to enough Terry Gross Fresh Air interviews to have a pretty sturdy fantasy in which I go on the show and Terry asks me her thoughtful, direct, unearthing and sometimes awkward questions. The …
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actions > words
It truly doesn’t matter how long I’ve been a working writer, I still have days where I feel like I need to go back to How to Write Good school and learn my colors and …