Ten years ago, my very kind and very perceptive boyfriend at the time thought to make me a blog for my birthday. At first I was like, blog WHO? My first few posts were lost …
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ten year blogiversary!
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Fronuts!
Noun: donuts lovingly crafted for you by a darling friend, complete with special dyed coconut flakes/ sprinkles/ FLECKS OF ACTUAL GOLD; a physical representation of friend love; A GIFT THAT ONE WILL NEVER EVER FROGET.
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the names of Boats
At the request of Mrs. Foster Keddie, Mr. Foster Keddie took Mrs. Foster Keddie up to Santa Barbara for the weekend before her birthday, so that Mrs. Foster Keddie might indulge in one of her …
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I would like to not thank the Academy
Fox graciously and generously got all of the This is Us writers memberships with the Television Academy, which at first makes one feel quite lucky and fancy, but then, THE BOXES START TO COME. As …
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bud day
The happiest of birthdays to my bud, Elizabeth Castoria, superior sautee-er of vegetables, kindest of hearts, supreme toilet paper picker-upper, once tiny manhattan apartment share-er, forever and ever friend.
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in an image
When I have a play in production, I tend to become fixated on two elements: the scene change music, which can NOT be female vocalists earnestly playing guitars and singing about strawberries which for some …
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To Uncle
Verb: to get on a plane and fly through the air for the sole purpose of hanging out with your nephews; to spend the next three days following them around and clocking their every move …
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those who can’t sing / write and stare
First I loved writing stories, then poems, then plays, then movies, then TV, then emails to high schoolers who just discovered they love plays, then the occasional succinct note in Morrison’s lunch, but most recently: …
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layers of Irony
While I’m an upstanding member of the Writer’s Guild, I can’t say for sure whether or not I actually know the definition of irony, but LET’S TRY and also WHO DOES? For the past few …
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heat, brought
Last night, our short film Again had its first screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, in an evening with five other beautiful shorts. They treat you GOOD. A representative to usher you around / make …