Noun: the feeling when you’re at work and it’s your birthday and you’re at once VERY ANXIOUS about how and when there will be a big group moment with cake and singing and also VERY …
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Birthdayxiety
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Body apology
We have officially started SET LIFE with The Five Star Weekend. It’s my first time on set in six years, first time as a Showrunner, and I am officially confronting my innate desire to apology …
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the house my words bought
I sit in the shade outside of the house my words bought, trying to write more words. Even though my words were worthy enough to afford a house with a shaded spot out back and …
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A room of one’s own
I RAN MY FIRST WRITER’S ROOM! I can’t believe it began, and I survived, and that it’s done. Showrunning is basically like suddenly becoming a CEO after spending many years making little bracelets in your …
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Scout
TO SCOUT: to venture to an island with a film crew, to poke around where you Intend to film, to snoop first and ask permission later, to lean into your biggest ideas and strategize and …
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my brain has eyes
Joe says his brain has eyes, and the he can see into other people’s feelings. He says his eyes are so strong, they can see 100 things, the cars in the distance and the airplanes …
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cake dusting
New tradition: make your child a birthday cake that is far too large for a single family to consume. The night of their birthday, after candles and cake, slice off giant pieces of the cake …
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Mother
For the first time in my twelve years of TV writing, I am RUNNING A SHOW, an adaptation of a beautiful book about female friendship and grief and gift bags and cheese. I feel at …
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two kids
I finish work early and rush home so I can pick Joe up and take him for ice cream, but I also haven’t seen Bobbie all day, so we all go to get ice cream, …
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how to make the fire about yourself
My new neighbor is outside her house sweeping up ash, she stops me to tell me they almost bought a house in Atladena. They were deciding between that one and the one next to us, …