Little Girl is Big, her feet don t fit anymore into the palm of your hands. She s three and wears clothes for six year olds, she s going to be a Big Big Girl like you were, and are, hovering slightly above most women and some men. And yet right now, she s still so small, and wants [ ]
Hi it s me, I still exist, as does this blog. 2.5 years and 100 new gray hairs later, MY FIRST TV SHOW AS SHOWRUNNER HAS DROPPED ON PEACOCK. Yesterday, on the day of its release, I laid on my bed and cried, cried off my false eyelashes from the night before, happy and exhausted tears, [ ]
Me to Morrison: Oh, you should have some of the cinnamon sourdough I made for breakfast! Morrison: Sounds good, thanks! Me: You should cut off a piece and toast it and eat it that way. Morrison: Yes, I know how Bread works Me: .you should put it into your mouth and chew it with your teeth, [ ]
Walking to school: Joe: You know what (name of child bully redacted) said to me? He said he was going to beat me up. Me: Really? What did you say? Joe: I said I was going to come with my whole family and beat HIM up. Me: (weirdly proud) There you go! Joe: I d bring [ ]
I dream I get a Note from a higher up: You must put your grandmother Roberta in this episode. I say to them, but my Grandma Roberta has been dead for many years, and they say I don t care, you must find her, and put her in it. So I have no choice but to [ ]
Yesterday we announced our premiere date for Five Star Weekend (JULY 16!) and released our first look pictures, and the stars are stunning, and I m still processing the fact that we have gotten to write and produce and make this beautiful show, that this is a show of my own. Maybe one day it will [ ]
I remember reading an interview with this playwright I admired, years ago, when he was asked for any advice he had for young writers her said step one: marry my wife. And I think about that a lot, how marrying the exact right person can actually be the thing that makes you good at what [ ]
The other night at dinner, sucking on an apple slice, Bobbie casually tapped into my biggest insecurities, laid bare my primal squishy center self, who is approx 10-13 years old and chubby and trying to be cool and play sports while also being extremely bad at playing sports. Bobbie (LITERALLY COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED AND OUT OF [ ]
Remember when, for ten years, I wrote on this blog everyday like it was my job, because sometimes it was? And then remember when I had children and decided to back off this commitment and let it be every other day, and slowly over time, that became once a week, and now it s just something [ ]
For the lady who has everything, including but not limited to: gainful employment, healthy children, a fridge full of leftovers, a peloton, counters full of homemade gingerbread, a loving husband who does not divorce her when she wanders around the house angrily sending emails in her head fully picking at her old south myrtle beach [ ]