Hi dear readers. This is the longest I've gone without posting.
The reason: I'm working every day on a writing project that has a deadline. It has momentum. I am accountable to my writing partner and she is a hard task master. The project is called Honesty. I'm having so much fun working on it. I hope to someday share it with you in some form.
Between that and my intense and wonderful full-time job that involves a great deal of high-pressure high-stakes writing...
And managing my family, which can be in cruise control for stretches and then someone gets really sick, or someone needs emergency money sent overseas, or someone needs something...I'm the kind of mom that still makes my kids a priority. I'll take a surprise Skype call in the middle of my work day. Or leave work early to literally RUN to some PC one-branch-only bank downtown to make a deposit so that my kid in Barcelona can pay for a replacement passport - because she neglected to think ahead...
I did tell Zoe this week that I'd like to be "moved back to second string on the support bench." Last time I told her that, she said, "Mom, you are second string." I guess her real supporters are working even harder than I am.
I am grateful for all my my friendships, who rotate in off my bench to support me. My first string is solid and unwavering, standing at the ready, especially now that I've graduated from therapy. You know who you are.
Today, in a few hours, I'm stepping down as president of the Cutting Ball Theater after seven years. I'm so proud of what we have done together to contribute to the San Francisco theater scene. In ten minutes I'll be asking a donor for a gigantic pledge of support as one of my final acts as president.
I'm also an elected official in a small town. Doesn't take up much time, but it does.
All this plus just surviving all my irrational mood swings, being married, and staying alive in this insane world.
As a result, this blog has taken a back seat.
Go see Tenderloin at Cutting Ball. It's amazing. Annie Elias and all the actors who spent over a year interviewing and studying the characters in my neighborhood created an amazingly moving piece. It's getting all kinds of attention. See it if you can.
The reason: I'm working every day on a writing project that has a deadline. It has momentum. I am accountable to my writing partner and she is a hard task master. The project is called Honesty. I'm having so much fun working on it. I hope to someday share it with you in some form.
Between that and my intense and wonderful full-time job that involves a great deal of high-pressure high-stakes writing...
And managing my family, which can be in cruise control for stretches and then someone gets really sick, or someone needs emergency money sent overseas, or someone needs something...I'm the kind of mom that still makes my kids a priority. I'll take a surprise Skype call in the middle of my work day. Or leave work early to literally RUN to some PC one-branch-only bank downtown to make a deposit so that my kid in Barcelona can pay for a replacement passport - because she neglected to think ahead...
I did tell Zoe this week that I'd like to be "moved back to second string on the support bench." Last time I told her that, she said, "Mom, you are second string." I guess her real supporters are working even harder than I am.
I am grateful for all my my friendships, who rotate in off my bench to support me. My first string is solid and unwavering, standing at the ready, especially now that I've graduated from therapy. You know who you are.
Today, in a few hours, I'm stepping down as president of the Cutting Ball Theater after seven years. I'm so proud of what we have done together to contribute to the San Francisco theater scene. In ten minutes I'll be asking a donor for a gigantic pledge of support as one of my final acts as president.
I'm also an elected official in a small town. Doesn't take up much time, but it does.
All this plus just surviving all my irrational mood swings, being married, and staying alive in this insane world.
As a result, this blog has taken a back seat.
Go see Tenderloin at Cutting Ball. It's amazing. Annie Elias and all the actors who spent over a year interviewing and studying the characters in my neighborhood created an amazingly moving piece. It's getting all kinds of attention. See it if you can.
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