Writing
Essays on connection, repair, and the occasional joke that saved my life. Fifty-odd of them, and counting.
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Bodhi
It’s not about faith. Or belief. For me at least. It’s about acceptance. I don’t have faith in gravity. I…
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A Prayer of Self Acceptance
I accept myself. I accept that I did the work, that I put effort into it, I accept that I…
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Daily Writing Tracker
I started tracking my writing last year, at first writing it on paper. As the year went on, I found…
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Before the Lions Eat Us
Sometimes, the best that someone can do is attack someone vulnerable. Sometimes, we were the vulnerable target. Sometimes, my mom…
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Mom and Pastels
I’ve been really up and down the last week. My zepbound dose increased and it’s been hard on my stomach;…
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The Voiceless
It was 2017, and I was at a presentation about the path forward to win back the House and the…
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Convince Me
Some people will waste your time without hesitation. The two words that will let you know, without fail, that someone…
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Mad Men
Don Draper does some awful things. Just about every character on Mad Men has, with perhaps Joan being the closest…
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Healing and letting myself heal
Healing and letting myself heal was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life. I’m still learning…
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The two hardest things I’ve had to learn
The two hardest things I’ve had to learn, accept, then change about myself. The first was that the abuse and…
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Breakthrough
I’ve been healing, planning, and working. About two months ago, I had an incredible healing breakthrough. It was enough of…
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Irrational Mr. Spock
I’m a very rational person, who’s experienced a lifetime of incredibly irrational things. I decided a few months ago to…
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Shogun Season 1
The novel Shogun is an under-researched artifact, an impressive literary achievement that manages to be a 20th century version of…
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Letting Go
Letting go, but allowing myself to remember, some of the writing I lost so long ago. Novels – The Adventures…
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Hayden Christensen at Star Wars Celebration 2023
I love how many kids who grew up with the prequels became adults with families who show a lot of…
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My first Magnet class is coming up – Funny Voices and Feelings
I’m teaching my first Magnet class, and it’s about character artistry called ‘Funny Voices and Feelings.’ It’s about using a…
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Looking dramatic at the Magnet with Blue Hause
Ona Vicente and Dmitry Shein are COOL! They’re so cool, they’re both fellow comedy performers and amazing Magnet people, and…
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Podcast guest spot upcoming on Love Hurts
Storyteller, filmmaker and podcaster Bryan Berlin’s podcast Love Hurts explores the messiness of love between family, friends, partners, faith, art,…
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Podcast guest spot upcoming on There It Is
Jason Farr, my friend in comedy from the Magnet Theater, has a great podcast called There It Is where he…
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Podcast voiceover performance upcoming on Girl Tales – The Legend of Yuwul
The great Rebecca Cunningham of Girl Tales cast me to play a bunch of characters in Nina Ki’s retelling of…