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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Domestic Geology
December 4, 2014 Domestic Geology As preparation for the, um, 40-50 folks who passed through my house last Thanksgiving weekend, I did some deep cleaning. As in, looking into the nooks and crannies in my kids’ toy bins. I put on my sloppy clothes and protective goggles, took a final breath of the clean top-world […]
But Fear Itself
November 26, 2014 But Fear Itself Over the past couple of weeks – more since the election, I suppose – a couple of times readers of my blogs have cautioned me to “be careful. You have a lot of fans.” While I really appreciate concern from anyone, I’m not sure what this means. My […]
Unified
November 22, 2014 Unified Maybe it’s me, or maybe it’s menopause, but there are so many moments in my life these days where I’m not sure if I’m where I’m supposed to be. I visit a friend in a quaint small town. “I could live here! What would it be like to live here? […]
Update
Novemer 16, 2014 Update For those of you – so many of you – that read and responded to the post “When Anything Can Happen,” I wanted to keep you in the loop. You have become part of my far-flung circle, as I hope I have become part of yours. The weather finally cooled […]
Jane and Gloria and Frances
October 22, 2014 Jane and Gloria and Frances I don’t want to write about Renee Zellweger. Or rather, that’s not all I want to write about. I got off a daylong flight and checked what the world was chatting about. Twitter and Facebook: our modern village gossip sites. Amid Ebola and Isis, there was […]
When Anything Can Happen
September 23, 2014 When Anything Can Happen As most of you know, my daughter has an intellectual disability. Much of my heart opening path has stemmed from that, and parenting in general. If I didn’t have children, I would think my shit didn’t stink. But in the most loving of ways (or not) my kids […]