Baby prep classes are super overwhelming and emotional and weird and even weirder over Zoom. I thought we wouldn’t be able to top that time in our Prepped class where all of the pregnant people …
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The R word
If you’ve got a minute, or a Kindle, or eyes, or 11 bucks, or all of them, definitely check out Ibram’s How to be an Anti Racist. I’m really loving digging into his brain. He …
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KATHY
KAREN HAS A COUSIN. Her name is Kathy, and she works as a pre-natal ultrasound technician at my hospital, and she is CHATTY AS THE DAYS ARE ENDLESS AND NO LONGER MARKED BY EVENTS. Take …
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SAUSAGE, PARTY OF FOUR?
One of my FAVORITE things to do is call large groups of men a Sausage Party. Writer’s rooms, social gatherings, a few dudes just sort of standing together, my brothers gathered in a room, nephews …
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watch Paint Dry
Just slowly moving our way down the list of pregnancy movie montage moments over here. Murrca’s been bad this year so its birthday party has been CANCELLED, DON’T SEND PRESENTS. Instead we are taking today …
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Post-Covid Theater’s Vaccine
ATTN EVERY AMERICAN THEATER: when coughs are no longer weapons and the feeling of your shoulder against a stranger’s coat isn’t terrifying, and you open your doors again, PLEASE LET IT BECAUSE YOU ARE PRESENTING …
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Pandemic Babymoon
We decided to take a risk and VERY CAREFULLY, DISTANCE-LY, MASKED AND DRIPPING WITH HAND SANITIZER, stay a few nights at a newly re-opened low-capacity beach hotel (and other things I will remind myself when …
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BUTT TRUTH
I just caught a glimpse of the actual size of my butt in a mirror, like an actual mirror, not a mirror in which I control my image of myself, and it cast great doubt …
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What I Know
I don’t claim to have or fully grasp the Solution, and I also don’t claim to know what it’s like to be a police officer who must at one time be a social worker, mental …
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NEW PRIZED POSSESSION
The writer’s assistant on Maid, a brilliant young playwright Erica Wachs whose name I will drop here so as to yield results when anyone might google her, ERICA WACHS ERICA WACHS, got me the most …