To anyone who’s feeling self conscious today about the hope you felt leading up to yesterday: Don’t. You’re not dumb, you’re brave. Hope is a choice, and it’s an act of courage. Believing that things …
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Art
A dream is a wish your heart makes and sometimes you also get paid to do it. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new animated Disney movie. I’ll just leave it …
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marriage
9 ish years ago, in a Midtown Manhattan Kleinfeld’s, as a blizzard rolled in, I said yes to this Dress, and for me at the time, I think getting married meant this dress, and being …
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The Library
Say, did you know that you’re NOT supposed to take melatonin every night for approximately 3.5 years, through a pandemic and two children and multiple projects and career developments, and then expect your body to …
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Bedtime Routine
Having a four year old has been fully as advertised, from the absurd things he says, DO YOU WANT TO EAT A COOKIE MADE OF PEOPLE? to his elaborate bedtime routine that I fully opt …
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I’m here all week
I am currently managing two children and multiple projects and my brain is at full capacity, proof being a few snapshots from the last few weeks: I got all dressed up and got us a …
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what do you want
I just thought this might be an interesting tidbit for any readers here who AREN’T dramatic writers, surely there are a few? The bit is this: about 90% of writing for the screen or the …
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the nothing game
Just documenting the Nothing Game here, before I forget it. It goes like this. Many mornings, let’s say most of them, while we’re all eating breakfast, we play the Nothing Game. It goes like this: …
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stay grounded, stay humble, stay insecure
Typically I spend a good amount of time pitching on a project, convincing the producers that I’m the person for the job, that I’ll write the best version of the story. During this time I …
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buns
Little known fact: the scene in Father of the Bride when Steve martin looses his shit at the grocery store and starts ‘removing superfluous buns’ is actually a documentary about my own life, one that …