No matter where you are in show business, whether you’re experienced or just starting out grasping, swimming, struggling toward your dreams, that moment when you first see a star glued to the door of the dressing room with your name…

Olivia Benson is my spirit animal. For those who know not of the divine Olivia, let me teach: LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT is a powerful 28-season police procedural that is without question my favorite television show. It is…

Gratitude is where the cycle begins. That is the place where I start from. I move from resentment of my dependency to gratitude for being given life. This is commitment to life, to affirming life even when the masses are…

Papery, rose red petals, on thorny branches that grow a half-inch every day, reach out to scratch your legs if you get too close. Hurry! Fit your hands into garden gloves, grab a kitchen scissors, cut the tough branches before…

This cracked world. today, off-kilter, can be found by walking through the fog to a classroom where students and teachers co-exist. Stimulation--stim-- is the word of the day. Hand flaps, finger snaps, rocking, swaying, stretching, reaching, fidgets, chewies, grabbits, digits.…

[continuing...] I'm supposed to be writing the outline. The Advisor, I call her in my head, has rejected each idea as too vague. They are. And no way will that vagueness get me money to travel to Colombia or whichever…

Isis wails. The body of her beloved is scattered over the fields. She searches for the pieces of him. She scratches the soil for his bones. Don’t bother to try to contain her. If you want to survive this harsness…

[dear partner, I apologize for these contextless snippets as I find my way. Your comments about what you'd need to know yesterday are very helpful.] [Amelia and Jana are back in LA. Amelia lives not far from campus with her…

He was sexy and gorgeous, a brand new father to a child he had with a wife he loved very much, and out of town with a play headed for Broadway…. An actor on the road is an unreliable narrator…

She cocks her head slightly to take it all in. It's a little lopsided and now so is she. She looks at it the same way you might look at a dopey dog or the Pollack-esque fingerpainting her six year…

[an ongoing story about an aimless grad student Amelia, her beloved hunk of a dog, her wealthier take-charge friend Jana—and I'm figuring everything else out as I go. This picks up with Amelia and Jana at Jana's family's cabin at…

Okay……so Peter and I made the brave decision to move from San Francisco to Willis, Michigan….yes, it’s as farm-landish and multi-meadowed as it sounds…the nearest large city Detroit, the closest interesting town Ann Arbor.. And so, after purchasing the large…