Essays on connection, repair, and the occasional joke that saved my life. Fifty-odd of them, and counting.
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It’s not about faith. Or belief. For me at least. It’s about acceptance. I don’t have faith in gravity. I…
I accept myself. I accept that I did the work, that I put effort into it, I accept that I…
I started tracking my writing last year, at first writing it on paper. As the year went on, I found…
Sometimes, the best that someone can do is attack someone vulnerable. Sometimes, we were the vulnerable target. Sometimes, my mom…
I’ve been really up and down the last week. My zepbound dose increased and it’s been hard on my stomach;…
It was 2017, and I was at a presentation about the path forward to win back the House and the…
Some people will waste your time without hesitation. The two words that will let you know, without fail, that someone…
Don Draper does some awful things. Just about every character on Mad Men has, with perhaps Joan being the closest…
Healing and letting myself heal was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life. I’m still learning…
The two hardest things I’ve had to learn, accept, then change about myself. The first was that the abuse and…
I’ve been healing, planning, and working. About two months ago, I had an incredible healing breakthrough. It was enough of…
I’m a very rational person, who’s experienced a lifetime of incredibly irrational things. I decided a few months ago to…
I don’t want to use the word normal, because what’s normal, but I haven’t felt like myself in a long…
The novel Shogun is an under-researched artifact, an impressive literary achievement that manages to be a 20th century version of…
Letting go, but allowing myself to remember, some of the writing I lost so long ago. Novels – The Adventures…
I love how many kids who grew up with the prequels became adults with families who show a lot of…
I’m teaching my first Magnet class, and it’s about character artistry called ‘Funny Voices and Feelings.’ It’s about using a…
Ona Vicente and Dmitry Shein are COOL! They’re so cool, they’re both fellow comedy performers and amazing Magnet people, and…
Storyteller, filmmaker and podcaster Bryan Berlin’s podcast Love Hurts explores the messiness of love between family, friends, partners, faith, art,…
Jason Farr, my friend in comedy from the Magnet Theater, has a great podcast called There It Is where he…