Morrison and I went to the opera last night for our ten year dateaversary, La Traviata at the LA Opera. It was maybe the second time I’d ever been, and it was just as I …
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Daughter
I put her in her brother’s clothes but still she wants to be in the kitchen with me, wrapped up in my legs and apron strings. Maybe she wants to be close to Food or …
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a cool picture
There’s an awesome little write-up about The Game in the theater section of the New York Times today, from which I’ve learned two things. One, life goes on. One day, critics do not like something …
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I care about Bread
There’s a scene in my new play where the main character Alyssa wanders onstage eating a giant baguette. She’s at a breaking point in her life and her marriage, and after spending years not eating …
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The Game
I remember after I had Joe wondering if I had any plays left in me, or if I had written all of the plays that I ever would, but then Vivienne called me and asked …
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back, again
Maybe it’s three months of cross country flights, maybe it’s that my baby is now a 25 pound toddler and my toddler is a 45 pound kid, maybe it’s stress and let down and hormones …
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Ham: a Journey
Me, every Easter: Last year my Ham was too big, I had too much Ham. This year I will get a smaller Ham, so that there will not be a Ham surplus, so I will …
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this is my favorite
Joe has a new favorite game, basically you look through one of his car magazines, and on each page, he selects 2-3 favorites, and then you pick YOUR favorites. But see, you CAN’T pick the …
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A biscuit
This is not just a sausage egg and cheese biscuit from Sunrise Biscuit kitchen in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this is not just the biscuit that answered my first hangovers or inspired my first ten …
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fool me three times
LISTEN, I cannot sit here and pretend like I’m a person who does not read reviews, who sits in this world knowing that people are writing things about my work and I’m just NOT reading …