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On Your Story’s Importance
No matter how tame your story feels to you, it’s still yours. Own it.
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On Knowing the Best
Today is Grandparents Day. This is a holiday that occasionally falls on my son’s birthday, and today is no exception. When this happened during my young parenthood, there was no contest. The day belonged to my kid. But it was a mistake. Because he has two really, really amazing grandmothers. Today, though, I’m going to talk about …
On Eighth Grade
We opened Bo Burnham’s amazing, beautiful, painful ode to puberty, EIGHTH GRADE, this month. It was everything I’d hoped. That “everything” was painful, unflinching, cringe-worthy reality. It was perfect. Yes, the movie had the tiny kids with flat stomachs and clear skin, who were externally flawless but sometimes awful and bitchy. There were also the …
On Becoming That Thing You Can’t Find
So, I have this amazing job working with amazing people doing amazing things. Which is mostly, you know, amazing, but sometimes, you know, intimidating. Today, a casual assigned task was to “reach out to food bloggers” in the area about this incredible drop menu we’re doing for an upcoming movie. Simple enough. Hahaha watch me …
Life is Very Short…
You can learn a lot from a man of few words. I was lucky to be raised by one of them.
The Richest Man in Town
The day I met Bill Johnmeyer was the biggest in what had to that point been a series of tests administered to me from his son. From the day of our first date, Josh had been throwing me into situations that would have been stressful enough alone, and then adding little bonus stressors like sprinkles …
On Abandonment
As far back as I can remember, I’ve gotten anxious if I felt that I would be abandoned. I have no idea why this is. I remember the bus driver forgetting my stop a few times when I was in first grade, and thinking that I would have to live on the bus now, and …
While You Were Sleeping
I’ve been on an extended training venture in Austin, Texas since October 29. This is the first time I’ve had an adventure that took me away for my own career. I was a welding girlfriend, then a welding wife. While it was the hardest thing, it unfortunately turned into the easiest thing. Distance is hard. …
On Achievement
One thing I’m really good at is putting myself down. I have so many years of solid experience in this area that I challenge anyone to prove they could be more self-deprecating than I am. You’ll lose. Unless, due to my self-loathing, I let you win and then tell myself I couldn’t even be good …
On Being Present
Living in the moment is great. Except when it sucks and we’d rather not.