May I please direct your attention to baby Morrison, center, serving me the EXACT look he gives me every time I repeat myself, ask him when the new refrigerator door is coming and has he …
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the Look
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I fell down the stairs
The last few months I’ve been going through a real rite of passage as a new Mother, which is of course the Brandi Carlile Phase, in which all you do is listen to Brandi Carlile …
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write what you Don’t Know
There is the adage write what you know and I’ve kind of lived and written by it. I’ve mined my life and my heart and my mind for stories, for things that have happened to …
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Questions to Never Ask
I’ve been venturing out of the house more and more, even went up to Ojai for a night to finish a rewrite (THANK YOU MORRISON.) While there, TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN on TWO DIFFERENT DAYS asked …
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Do you Validate
As I feel my feelings, and think about those feelings, then feel the feelings all over again, which might be the other Circle of Life? I realize that all people really need is food, water, …
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Quick and Easy Lemon Curd
Zest 900 lemons Coax out their juice whip with butter for the rest of your life WONDER WHERE EXACTLY YOU GET OFF THINKING YOU HAVE TIME OR VALID REASON TO MAKE YOUR OWN LEMON CURD …
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terre
My brain is typically a whir of emails I need to send and conversations I need to have and things and when exactly I should start rubbing peanut butter on Joe to make sure he’s …
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The Mammogram
Long before I ever wrote plays, I fancied myself a Poet. This fancy did not last long as I was brutally REJECTED by the honors poetry track in college, for my collection that I’m pretty …
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The Big One
If you live in LA you have to make a choice about how you feel about earthquakes and you have to live with that choice. You can ignore them, you can fear them, you can …
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Amelia
How to gently, dreamily float the concept of death to a 7 month old: NEVER TO RETURN. But her body was never found, and so, did she die? Is she an angel? DOES SHE NOW …