Morrison and I went to the opera last night for our ten year dateaversary, La Traviata at the LA Opera. It was maybe the second time I’d ever been, and it was just as I …
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The Opera
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I care about Bread
There’s a scene in my new play where the main character Alyssa wanders onstage eating a giant baguette. She’s at a breaking point in her life and her marriage, and after spending years not eating …
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Ham: a Journey
Me, every Easter: Last year my Ham was too big, I had too much Ham. This year I will get a smaller Ham, so that there will not be a Ham surplus, so I will …
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A biscuit
This is not just a sausage egg and cheese biscuit from Sunrise Biscuit kitchen in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this is not just the biscuit that answered my first hangovers or inspired my first ten …
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fool me three times
LISTEN, I cannot sit here and pretend like I’m a person who does not read reviews, who sits in this world knowing that people are writing things about my work and I’m just NOT reading …
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do your best
I’m trying very hard to be present with Joe, and not think about the fact that critics are right now, in this very moment, at our show. Joe very badly wants me to draw a …
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cake: guilt
The important thing to note here is that MY BABY GIRL IS ONE, WHAT, what even is the passage of time, where did the days go, I guess we have just been living them? And …
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she’s 41, and her Daddy still calls her sweetie
This lyric in Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn has always really resonated with me, she’s 41 and her Daddy still calls her baby, maybe because my own Dad (never Daddy, okay?) still calls me sweetie, still …
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The Harvest
Hiding in the back of the theater, chewing on my hair, hunched over to protect my heart, I feel like a farmer waiting to see what her crops will yield. When something doesn’t land quite …
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first preview
It was your special, sacred thing, an inside joke, a secret, your baby, the inner folds of your soul, and now it’s for everyone. Everyone has snacks to eat and must eat them one at a …