Dear Girl who sat across the aisle from me at the Notebook preview last night, who spent act one sobbing, then laughing, then sobbing, chugging red wine, shouting YES at moments you knew, whispering secrets …
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this is for you
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to all the young women
For the last month and some change, I’ve been staying at corporate apartments in buildings in Chicago that are filled with literal Young Urban Professionals. Their gyms are teeming with young beautiful women and I …
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Have toddler will travel
DO: tell him every day for approximately 2 months that soon he will be going on an airplane so that he’s emotionally and physically prepared for everything that is to come DON’T: In tizzy of …
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Order in the Kitchen
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s the patriarchy? Probably because I have a very good Mother? But I can’t start the day, or go to sleep, with a messy kitchen. I need everything in …
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Morrison and I have made a short film that got into TriBeCa and also a FULLY TWO YEAR OLD PERSON but this cake that we assembled while Joe was taking his birthday nap IS OUR …
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buy now, think later
I don’t like money as much as I should. When I receive a big check for writing something, or even just regular, guild standard compensation, I know I should feel grateful and like I earned …
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SAVE THE DATE
Ingrid and I either wrote a musical together, or are getting married, or both? Come see us in Chicago September 6-Oct 16 to find out which (OR BOTH.) Creating something as big as a musical …
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each other
We can wait, if you like, to ascend to some higher plane of being, at which point we’ll start directing all our mental and material resources towards existential questions and thinking nothing of our own …
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IS THIS REAL LIFE?
I don’t understand what world this is and what I did to deserve to live in it but today, we start rehearsal for The Notebook at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, like we are going to rehearse …
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mornings with toddler
Joe: LEAF BLOWER!!!!! Us: yeah, you’re right, it’s a leaf blower! You hear a leaf blower? Joe: NEIGHBOR LEAF BLOWER!!!!!!!!! Us: yes! It’s our neighbor blowing their leaves! Joe: BLUE CAR NEIGHBOR LEAF BLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Us: …