Amy Brenneman

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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

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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 –

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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

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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

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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

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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

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