I work alone. Think, create, and write alone. It is ideal for productivity, not so much for water cooler chat. So recently, when I made some statements that were a bit provocative (which I wholly stand by) in the big wide public of the internet, it felt a bit scary to...
When I was 12 years old, I saw Lily Tomlin in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. I would say that I was lucky, but it wasn’t luck, it was fate. I have loved Lily Tomlin since I...
Find a picture of yourself when you were a little girl. One that embodies the essence of that early unedited self. Would she recognize you? Are you someone she would want to be friends with? Someone she would be proud of? When I was a little girl, I wanted to be...
The freedom I want to rant about this month is the freedom to bleed. You might not consider this a freedom. But what about the young women and girls who are homeless, or in prisons, detention camps, or otherwise detained around the world? These women do not have...
It’s back to school time for the northern hemisphere. I make this differentiation because I have mostly not lived north of the equator for the past two decades. So this is applicable in February for us Southern Hemisphereans as well. Those of you who get to go...
