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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she’s 41, and her Daddy still calls her sweetie
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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 …
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The Playbills
There they just are, in a stack by the door, just hanging out, waiting to be held and flipped through and spilled on, collected. When I was in high school I kept all of mine, …
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Work
Today, my job is to be in Miami with Ingrid at the Broadway Across America conference, promoting our show, in hopes of booking a good solid national tour. It’s my job to eat unlimited shrimp …
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My Peloton
I took my first LIVE IN PERSON peloton class yesterday, also my first in person fitness anything since 2019. I’ve been taking them on my bike in my garage since the pandemic but a REAL …
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picking nits
When the Notebook was in rehearsal in Chicago fall of 2022 I wasn’t able to access my full writer brain or be fully present with the actors because SOMEONE (BOBBIE, AHEM) was sucking all of …
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2023 bakes
Some people do a New Year’s inventory of their past year on earth’s accomplishments, decisions, mistakes, I like to think about my year in terms of Bakes, which in fact hold a great deal of …
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Thirst
I am remarkably self conscious blogging about this, considering how much my desire to lose weight was about how my Self is perceived but here we are, 7 months and 40 pounds later, I did …
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Baby’s first Hanukkah, Chanukah
By which I mean MINE. As I’ve previously announced here, I’ve been exploring Judaism (my Grandmother was, I’m a quarter) in sort of a low key, timid way, of course searching for meaning and guidance, …