Amy Brenneman

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Changes

September 14, 2014 Changes My son turned 9 in June. Always a thoughtful, precocious dude (in his mama’s indulgent eyes anyway), he has now entered what Rudolf Steiner termed “the nine year change.” My kids started out in a Waldorf school and if I were a good Waldorf mother I

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The Leftovers Season Finale

September 8, 2014 The Leftovers Season Finale Margaret Qualley and Amy in the first season finale of “The Leftovers.” I was going to live Tweet the finale.  I love live Tweeting, really – a chance to watch in real time (kinda) the show with those who made it and those

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Thanks for “The Leftovers”!

August 27, 2014 Thanks for “The Leftovers!” As the school year starts and my sweet summer disappears, my head is a jangle of to-do lists.  School supplies and sports sign ups, homework folders and making travel plans for – WTF? – CHRISTMAS?  Monkey-mind, as the Buddhists say.  I cannot sit

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Emmys 2014

August 26, 2014 Emmys 2014 They snuck up on me.   Since I didn’t have to go, and since back-to-school was the same week, searching for an Emmy outfit got upstaged by picking out the right pencil case for my fourth grader.   But suddenly the weekend was upon us

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An extra

June 24, 2014 An extra So this spring, as I have every year for the past 13 years, I attempted to balance the work/parent thing. Not unusual, and I’m sure many of you reading this are attempting to do the same thing RIGHT NOW.   The balance is ever-shifting, of

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Leftovers: 1

April 25, 2014 Leftovers: 1 I really had a plan to write about this one, diary-style, for day one.  A play-by-play, like the ones I love to read.  But here we are, two months in, and I have chronicled not one thing.  Except for my tweets about the frigid NY

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