HOT TIP: send out your Christmas cards in January, long after people have probably thrown away or stored actual Christmas cards, and they aren’t exactly sure when to throw yours out? So there you are, …
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Who’s the Boss
Me, before kids: my kids will not be the boss of me, I will not succumb to their whims, I will be like a pioneer parent, they will play with sticks and eat all I …
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industry professional
I’m doing a short writer’s room / think tank for my friend’s new show right now, and it hurts to both sit and stand, so here I am, in all of my co-exec producer glory, …
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what is your pain
Re: my pain threshold: Doctor: so what’s your pain, on a scale of 1 to 10? Me: okay do you mean like, for me specifically? It’s pain and I don’t want it. So, a Twelve? …
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I dream of martini
In my regular life I probably have one, maybe two martini’s a year? But because I can’t have, it’s all that I want. I want to sit outside somewhere in a chair that doesn’t hurt …
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Bows
Me, before I had a daughter: It’s so stupid how we put bows on baby girls heads! As if we’re terrified that someone might mistake them for a boy, as if that were a big …
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play with cars
All Joe really ever wants to do is play with cars, and you’d be surprised (or Not?) how quickly you run out of imaginary car content and scenarios. They can only stop at so many …
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life is bending down
When it hurts to bend down you realize that’s what life is, picking things off the ground, or at least parenting, which is equal parts love, frustration, fatigue, chicken nuggets, and picking chicken nuggets off …
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The power of Not
Joe’s new favorite word is Not, which is an extension of No but enables you to challenge reality which is an important if not annoying skill for a toddler. Joe, it’s night time, it’s time …
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an award
It feels fitting that we’re going to put this little girl who’s coming in EIGHT WEEKS, WHAT? in my office, forcing me to re-think, organize and move all of the work related crap I have …