Last night I was writing in my office, and I suddenly stopped and thought to myself, I am writing in my office. I actually stopped, took stock of these things: I am a writer. I have a …
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I have an office
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and then a hero comes alongggggggg
Today, on Heroes in pearls, Mona Charen: I can’t say that I knew anything about this woman before she made news for speaking out against Trump at the CPAC, and also, I can’t say that I …
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MUFFINDEMPTION
Noun: to avoid all work that one has been contracted to do and instead make muffins to make up for the last time you made muffins and they weren’t that great; to compensate for muffin …
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say what hurts
Today, on I’m learning everything I’ve ever needed to know in life from A Chef’s Table: I just watched the episode on Francis Mallman, a chef who cooks all of his food over Fire on …
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this is Dance
Say Bekah, what have you been doing with whatever resembles your free time? I’ve been spending most to all of it getting deep into the world of disability: its politics, its history, its beauty. A …
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home office
As is the way with obsessive box-checkers, I usually like to roll out of bed and immediately start accomplishing things. But lately, I’m trying this new thing in which I wake up, get my coffee, …
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DISCOVERIES
Last night we attended the Ovation Awards (an annual ceremony celebrating excellence in LA theater.) The Cake got a few nominations and one MUCH DESERVED WIN. But let’s focus on the real high points of …
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t’aint always easy
Almost 14 years ago, I carefully glued all of my grad school rejection letters into a scrapbook, and amused myself by highlighting the word ‘regret’ in all of them. I think I sensed that someday, …
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Do
I’ve been quite under the weather the last few days, with really no option but to rest, and do nothing. I can barely use my brain, let alone move. Turns out that this is my …
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how to melt my heart like butter in the microwave
In latest Cake news, which is a thing in my life right now, the play is currently in rehearsal down at the La Jolla Playhouse down in San Diego, and LAST WEEK THEY HOSTED A …