
Grammar life lessons
There are few things that the world agrees on, but I think that a fairly universal opinion held by all [...]

Five stages of Christmas grief
At first, I didn’t believe it. One day I was arguing with my mother-in-law about where you place soup spoons [...]

Why actors act
I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe festival, where I was putting on a show I wrote. It’s the largest [...]

Violet’s letter
A hiking boot tramples a violet, apologizes, and then has the naivete to think that is an end of the [...]

Many changes
Let me turn the clock back four months, to a midwinter day in January. It’s a snowy morning in New [...]

Day of fears overcome
America is obsessed with “National __ Day” celebrations. When I first heard of one, National Ice Cream Day, I thought, [...]

Workout mat’s therapy session
The conversation begins this way, more or less predictably: “And how does that make you feel?” “Well, obviously not good.” [...]

The frosting first manifesto
To: Eat the Cake First and Save the Frosting, the Best, for Last, to the attention of the party chairperson [...]

I go to… America!
It hit me recently that while travelers and bloggers who fall for Italy can’t get enough of conveying their rapture, [...]

The gridlock called regret
I wish I could tell you just which Los Angeles freeway I was on when, gridlocked, I took to pondering [...]

Reflections on rejection
When, regardless of the setting, people hear that I’m an actress, they usually have four comments that follow each other [...]