8 PM Tuesday night, Santa Ana winds howling like ghost trains, Morrison giving us all headlamps, our neighbor texting FIRE!!!! As another put the one in his yard out with a garden hose, a firetruck …
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what to wear when the world is burning
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goodbye, hello
The Notebook closed on Broadway last weekend, after a ten month run, after a 7 year birth. There’s things we tell ourselves, and the things people tell us, to make us all feel better, this …
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toilet paper
From 2004-2006, my friend Elizabeth and I shared a TINY (TINY TINY) apartment in the west village. We were both in grad school, we had a pet mouse and roasted a lot of broccoli and …
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I am a good mom
Joe doesn’t want to go to school, he wants to stay home and play. I tell him if he puts his socks on, we can go to target later and he can get a Car. …
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arts and crafts
After last years a Very Covid Thanksgiving I didn’t want to cook a single thing this year or preheat a single oven or shove a single leftover into Tupperware. So we escaped to an EXTREMELY …
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baketution
There’s a lot of things I don’t know and am not good at, like there are just too many to list (taxes, basic home maintenance, how to keep a plant alive) but let’s celebrate what …
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two kids, one tunnel
Bobbie wants to do whatever Joe is doing, wants to play with whatever he’s playing with. She wants to play with all of his toys, but Joe doesn’t want her to play with the Special …
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the sweater
I’m on the precipice of perhaps the biggest thing that’s happened in my career (which I must be vague about as it’s not official) and in response, instead of prepping emotionally and logistically for my …
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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 …