May 2011
4 posts
Hardest Working Pregnant Screenwriter in Town
There was a time when my friend Annie and I would sit on the grass in front of her little apartment, perhaps writing sketches for the Groundlings, perhaps eating ice cream… then going inside to sit on her couch and watch Pride & Prejudice, me asking if I could make myself another bowl of cereal, her saying, “Of course!” Her cats slinking by, sometimes arriving at her...
Gray Swan or Ballet at the YMCA
I took ballet from the time I was probably 3 years old to 17. At one point near my deciding to quit ballet, my teacher took me aside and said, “So, if this is what you want to do with your life, I think you have a very good chance of being a dancer— as a profession.” Knowing the amount of focus it took to be a real ballerina and knowing how much fun I was having in highschool...
My Son Wants a Les Miserables Themed Birthday...
Some of you may remember that for a period of time my strapping young Viking of a son was enthralled with the Meryl Streep / Abba phenomenon that is “Mama Mia.” The movie.
“Mommy you be Mama Donna and I will be Sofia at the wedding.” He’d say and put his silky soft white blankee on his head like a veil.
Being that many of the most phenomenal men I know...
Easter, Darth Maul & My Soft Warm Bosom.
It is so odd, wrong and sacrilegious that I gave my son a Darth Maul figurine for Easter. In an oversize plastic egg, in an Easter basket. (surrounded by colorful toothbrushes and toothpaste.. which he strangely loved).
First of all, Easter is the celebration of the rebirth of Jesus Christ. Right? I mean, that is what Easter is. We can say (as I did) that Easter is a “Celebration of...
