Hi it’s me, I still exist, as does this blog. 2.5 years and 100 new gray hairs later, MY FIRST TV SHOW AS SHOWRUNNER HAS DROPPED ON PEACOCK. Yesterday, on the day of its release, …
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They say you never forget your first time
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How to eat bread
Me to Morrison: Oh, you should have some of the cinnamon sourdough I made for breakfast! Morrison: Sounds good, thanks! Me: You should cut off a piece and toast it and eat it that way. …
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Notes
I dream I get a Note from a higher up: You must put your grandmother Roberta in this episode. I say to them, but my Grandma Roberta has been dead for many years, and they …
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First Look
Yesterday we announced our premiere date for Five Star Weekend (JULY 16!) and released our first look pictures, and the stars are stunning, and I’m still processing the fact that we have gotten to write …
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why to marry my husband
I remember reading an interview with this playwright I admired, years ago, when he was asked for any advice he had for young writers her said ‘step one: marry my wife.’ And I think about …
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for someone who has everything
For the lady who has everything, including but not limited to: gainful employment, healthy children, a fridge full of leftovers, a peloton, counters full of homemade gingerbread, a loving husband who does not divorce her …
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between friends
Actual found dialogue between two girl women friends who have gone wine tasting to celebrate 21 years of friendship. Where’d you get those pants? Where’d you get those bracelets? What was that story you told …
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good job
Waiting for studio notes on the first cut of my pilot, I spend the entire day baking. I make molasses cookies for my executives, a tray of blueberry pie bars for my editor, two loaves …
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nine years
I remember in my 30’s having some co-workers who’d been married 10 years and it felt like such a long time, but here I am 9 years into this here marriage, and it feels like …
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on empty
I, and only I, would return home after 100 days of production, after 5 months of running her first writers room, after the overseeing of writing and writing of 8 hours of television, and expect …