My friend Rita and I were talking about different combinations of words the other day. I said that I’d love to use behest and bereft in a poem somehow. And then she threw in the word behemoth. Then I wrote this: At Big Bird’s behest A behemoth acts bereft Snuffleupagus And she shot back...
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Playing Racquetball with a Cartoon
I’ve been playing racquetball with my son the last few weeks, and there’s something about the experience I find so entertaining. First off, I just don’t think you see anyone that small playing the game very often, if ever. I mean… you don’t usually see anyone under 60 playing it, honestly. Something about those...
Continue readingNo, I Will Not Go on Your Booze Cruise
I’ve got this friend who keeps going on these cruises. He always calls them booze cruises. And now he’s telling me I should go on them too, that they’re really great. You should go on the booze cruise with us Man, these booze cruises are great You’d really like the booze cruise No. I...
Continue readingGift Baskets, Testify, and New Play Feedback
It’s a hodgepodge of stuff! GIFT BASKETS So when my son and I went to see Nicole O’s fine new play about young womanhood last week, they had a raffle for a few different gift baskets. We entered and…. I won this! As someone who’s organized and put together prizes for events, it feels...
Continue readingThe Last Lap
I guess I’m continuing with the running theme… So I’m at the tail end of this 4-week writing sprint, the same class I took last year around this time which resulted in this play I was pretty happy with. I’ve got four days left to wrap the whole thing up. I’m supposed to get...
Continue readingBig Decision: Hills or Flats
So I’m signed up to run this race in just under two months. My friend Tom and I have to decide which of us is going to take which series of three legs that are left on the team (there are 12 of us running 216 miles in three days; I know, it’s totally...
Continue readingBREAKING: Kids are Cute
I was at a dinner party last week in south Austin, and the host has a five-year-old son who ended up going to bed about an hour into the event. When he was all ready for bed, he came into the living room, grabbed my hand, looked up at me with his big eyes...
Continue readingAnd Now it can be Told
For the past couple of months I’ve been raising money for a custom award for Christi Moore for the 20th Anniversary of ScriptWorks. She puts in a lot of time and energy for our organization without a lot of reward. Through contact with our 150 members, I was able to get a bunch of...
Continue readingI Guess Things Turned Out Okay
Another note to self: The show on May 19th went really well, my fears of low attendance were unwarranted (we ended up with about the same number as the last two shows and had to pull chairs from offstage to seat everyone), everybody had a good time, and we raised more money than we...
Continue readingTonight’s the Night
Yep, it’s here. Writing thank-you cards and stuff, trying to figure out whether to get programs together, and other information about the orphanage to hand out. Guess there’s some technical stuff to sort too. Whatevs. Totally not freaking out at all. So glad I stayed out late last night. No headache at all. Anyway,...
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