Last week I made more than an appropriate amount of jokes about the evening our home internet was out. In this day, when there's no internet there is also little social media (if you live in bad cell service like I do) and absolutely no TV. I proceeded to spend my time working on a [...]
I wrote about my mom's relationship with a married man and how that played into her mental illness, in my memoir Girls, Assassins & Other Bad Ideas. One fact I'm continually reminded of is that so often, as children living in our childhoods, we can't recognize dysfunction for what it is because we lack any [...]
Where are my fellow Oscar watchers at? As a former-critic turned movie lover (it is my experience that the two cannot truly co-exist) I will watch pretty much whatever looks or sounds good to me. That being said, once awards season rolls around and nominations are out, I try very hard to watch the Best [...]
I'm working on a new project. I gently started writing it last fall and it's slowly coming into its own. Along with the shape this project is taking comes a massive amount of imposter syndrome. Who am I to tell this story? Who would even read this boring drivel? Why did I ever think I [...]
I don't think I've ever been so aware as to track the journey of my Word of the Year on a monthly basis... This time though, with some of the things I am hoping my journey will take me through, it made sense. Way back in the blogging days, when I did this a lot [...]
Rainy Day in May... 