This weekend, I walked to end Alzheimer’s. What did you do?
Everyone can do their part to make this world a better place. It's not hard, perhaps it's just a matter of being creative. I am a big believer in paying it forward and it doesn't have to take money or status or time...it simply takes passion and a big heart. Last...
O.B.A.M.A.
For the last three years, I've spent most of my time at my computer writing. I got used to the solitude and became one of "those women" who wears yoga pants every day but does not do yoga. Oye. Once upon a time, I directed commercials. It was a terrific gig and...
The sense of loss: the same in both theatre and sports
I’ll never forget the feeling of standing in the tiny purple Pikesville High School Varsity locker room after my last high school lacrosse game. Despite the stink of sweat in the close quarters and the loud sounds of fourteen teenagers jabbering away, all I could feel...
A face for radio and a voice for tv
We all know the voices: Howard Cosell... Ryan Seacrest... Margaret Thatcher. Whether we like them or not, we respond to them. They are distinctive, crisp, resonant. They don't fill the silences with "hmm's" and "uhh's". They are in complete control. The art of the...
A big week of premieres and what to wear
Something must be in the stars because this upcoming week is far busier than my usual ‘stay-at-home-and-write-and-drink-wine-and-write-and- watch-bad-reality-tv-and-write’ weeks. Friday August 10th is the opening night for Sister Cities. This is the fourteenth...
Singing on Nickella Dee’s kids album — Part Deux
Today was recording day. 30+ kids and I sang on Nickella Dee's smart, funny, creative kids' album ME LIKE ME. For the last two weeks, I've been religiously memorizing my part in the car. Billy Joel and NPR were replaced with songs about Captain Billy Bobo and Road...
Singing on an album… checking off another item on my bucket list
Every since The Brady Bunch jumped the shark with their musical numbers, I have wanted to sing on an album. I wanted shalala to It's a Sunshine Day and groove out in bell bottoms to We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter. Thirty years later, my dream is coming...
When I’m angry, I paint
I started painting in '96. I had just lost the lead in a play to a spectacularly untalented actress whom the director was screwing. It was a huge loss of illusion for someone who genuinely thought the magical world of theatre was a meritocracy. I was devastated, I...
The loneliness of the long distance cyclist
Some people take pills. Some people drink. I cycle. Last year I trained for several months to complete the 600 mile Aids Lifecycle. Yesterday, was the anniversary of the ride and as I look back on my past year of riding, it has been a much different experience. Rather...
Sister Cities at the Hollywood Fringe
I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing Sister Cities performed because every time I watch it, whether it's a 50 thousand dollar production with elaborate sets and celebrity names or a tiny fringe production with an old couch and a shelf full of vodka bottles, it...