That Old Shame-y Feeling
October 26, 2015 That Old Shame-y Feeling My son has started a new school. We have ventured out from our scrappy, woefully underfunded public school (one with amazing people, amazing mission which in turn gave ME a sense of mission) to a well-funded fancy private school filled with people that I was prepared to […]
Be-Screwed
September 28, 2015 Be-Screwed There are three diamonds and Bam! A hyper cube – jewels tumbling down and – oh no the scary Jafar guy says “THIRTY SECONDS” and I scamper like a terrified rabbit… swiping, looking, jewels explode and roar and OMFG – I am topping 300,000 but then the dreaded drone signaling the […]
Vi’s Hair
September 27, 2015 Vi’s Hair Like the whole world, I cheered for Viola Davis last Sunday. Her historic win, her blinding honesty, her grounded beauty. It was one of those moments where we all thought together: this is good. This is a good moment in history and a good woman to make it. I […]
Training
September 21, 2015 Training During the Emmys yesterday, I was watching trains go by. It is Bodhi’s newest obsession: finding crossings of the Pacific Surfliner as it roars through the San Fernando Valley in between Santa Barbara and San Diego. A friend brought him to the Chatsworth crossing – they hiked through dry hills […]
Hey sweet friends…
June 24, 2015 Hey sweet friends… Sitting in my steamy patio here in Austin. Wanting to write something (remember when I used to write? Back in the winter? Before my NBC pilot?) but my thoughts are all squiggly and unformed. Unruly kindergarten thoughts. But my heart is filled with gratitude for you, my cyber […]
Recent Report: Part 1!
May 7, 2015 Recent Report: Part 1! Prepare yoursleves, the mystery unfolds. It’s been a while since I wrote anything coherent, eh? I had such plans for regular writing in 2015, but here the “first quarter” (what am I, a financial analyst?) has come and gone. I wash up on the shores of May sputtering […]
Darsan IV: Original Church
January 23, 2015 Darsan IV: Original Church For me, the Mona Lisa is a disappointment. I mean, we’ve seen that poor woman’s visage SO MUCH. We’ve thought about it to death, analyzed her smile, her clothes, and the backdrop. By the time we actually trek through the Louvre to see the original, we’re tired, […]
Darsan #3: Surviving St. Paul’s
January 20, 2015 Darsan #3: Surviving St. Paul’s Back to darsan and seeing the holy/god’s face/feeling the “ah-ha” in the most unlikely of places. Needless to say, I dragged my children to a ton of churches in Paris, London and Edinburgh over the holidays. In the stones of Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur and St. […]
My plan was to write about my trip to Europe…
January 19, 2015 My plan was to write about my trip to Europe… My plan was to write about my trip to Europe, but now, a week later, Europe has impossibly, horrifically, come to us. Flying back to LA with my dear, frail parents in tow. They are coming for an open-ended visit. I […]
Musings from the Old World
January 6, 2015 Musings From the Old World Stumbling around back home, jet-laggy and filled with images from the last two weeks in Europe. Paris, London, Edinburgh. Guiding our children (and ourselves) through history, hurtling back centuries as we turn every corner. In California, things are old at 70 years. At Stonehenge, the […]