by | Apr 26, 2013 | Chick Stuff, Plays, Random Musings, The Affair, Writing
Rome-Bologna-Budrio-Venice-Perugia. Just home after a delicious Italian working vacation, the jet lag is officially coursing through my body, replacing the fresh pasta and local vino I have been wining and dining on for the last three weeks. As I stare at my computer...
by | Apr 11, 2013 | Chick Stuff, Food, The Affair, Writing
There is an inordinate amount of wine at book clubs. In fact, I have yet to go to a book club where there aren’t at least half a dozen open bottles of vino beckoning to me. The wine bar is the Book Club’s version of an oasis and instead of a dehydrated man...
by | Apr 4, 2013 | Chick Stuff, Random Musings, Writing
Today, I was walking my dogs and we met a heavyset teen whose entire face lit up when she saw my greyhounds. Our morning route is near a high school and I often pass this girl whose solitary journey to school makes her stand out among the groups of teens in front of...
by | Oct 17, 2012 | Chick Stuff, Writing
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...
by | Jun 30, 2012 | Artists, Chick Stuff, Plays, Writing
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...
by | Apr 17, 2012 | Chick Stuff, Lacrosse, Writing
I finally “get” the obsession with The American Girl Doll. It took me a long time. I tried to resist. I was… converted. I had never been a girly-girl. I was the lone fifth grader playing flag football with the boys while the rest of the girls...
