“End of Times Therapy” – World Premiere
After three years of staged readings and re-writing, I am thrilled to announce that “End of Times Therapy” will have
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Querétaro is Wonderful But Don’t Tell Anyone
Note: I wrote the following piece for GoNomad.com. (They have not yet published, so posting it here for your travel
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Beginners Mind: The Ideal State for Writing Comedy
One thing I have noticed since I began teaching comedy is the imagination and creativity that comes out of my
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Birthday…Help!
I turned 52 this month. So RUDE! How…could this possibly happen? I felt like I needed to do something to
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Some Uber Personal Info
TRIGGER WARNING: This post dives into excessive detail about menstruation. If this topic is distressing to you please avoid reading
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Clown School
It’s so hard to write anything funny these days. I could vent. But who wants to hear more outrage? I’ll
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La Catrina Season
I had to take a break from the news. Oof…the world is in shambles. I have been trying to focus
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Gen X Resiliency
The summer I found out that my mom was pregnant, I was cast in a local production of “The Wiz”
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How To Be Creative When The World Is Melting Down
This summer has been a weird time. Which is odd because we just got over a weird time. But during
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Spiders, Natural Disasters and Male Comics
Hurricane, earthquake, and I found ANOTHER BLACK SPIDER in my apartment. It was in my laundry, somewhere on the sheets
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Creativity Thoughts – Writing Jokes
My second post-pandemic in-person standup comedy class begins this week. “Standup Comedy Teacher” seems like such an obscure occupation. But
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If My Mom Were Here…
For Mother’s Day I shared a post on Instagram about my mom’s many achievements not related to motherhood. She was
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June Standup Comedy Class & Workshop!
I am teaching an in-person standup comedy on Thursdays in June in Culver City. You say you don’t live in
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Bumble Dates
And fun, too.
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Valentine’s Day
I went a little nuts with the origami paper and scissors. Nothing is more satisfying than cutting and pasting. Not
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I Love Europe
What’s not to love? Free health care, little to no gun violence, and I can have a conversation on global
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All Things Beautiful in Porto
The rain followed me from Lisbon, where it mostly drizzled, to Porto where it came down in sheets. I didn’t
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Living Large In Lisbon
It’s five days into my stay in Lisbon and I am only now just blogging inside of a Wash &
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Mexico City – Last Days
I think I did pretty well in writing five blogs on this trip. Still, not the daily blogging I had
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Mexico City Day 6 – Teotihuacán
I’m behind on my blogging so I’m going to have to skip a few days. I am currently in a
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Mexico City Day 3 – Grutas Tolantongo
On my third day in Mexico, I left the city for a tour to “Las Grutas Tolantonga,” a hot springs
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Mexico City Day 2 – Casa Azul
My second day of solo traveler, was a little rough, as I think I still suffered from altitude sickness and
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Mexico City Day 1 – Solo Traveler In CDMX
When I was in college, back in the dark ages of skeleton keys and no internet, we bought these books
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Live Staged Reading of “End of Times Therapy” on April 9th
From the depths of Covid isolation comes a play that takes place in 2035 Los Angeles. Food is scarce, war
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Barcelona, I Heart You So Much
After a year and a half spent staring into a 13-inch screen for ten hours a day amidst a pandemic,
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We Are Still Fighting for Reproductive Rights And This Is Bullshit!
I went to the Reproductive Rights March last Saturday 10/3 and felt surprised by how much it impacted me. The
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Scab Girl Summer
Not to brag, but I had a lot of accidents this summer. My last blog post was about how I
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Summer of the Epic Bruise
Covid has impacted us all. Whether you got the virus, know someone who did, or simply succumbed to the stress
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End Of Times Therapy
I will be having a reading of the play I wrote earlier this year, “End of Times In Therapy.” Anxiety,
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Who Are We Now?
I made this comic art (need a better word for it) a week ago in a moment of feeling weirdly
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Talking to the Desert
While I waited for full vaccination I took a quick trip to Joshua Tree to talk to the desert and
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“Cantina Confidential” and “Salsa Chica” – Free on Kindle till May 11th
Mother’s deserve so much more than a day (like paid family leave and shared domestic labor for starters). But since
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Promising Young Woman
When I first moved to LA, a million years ago, I wrote a screenplay called “Angry Young Woman.” It was
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So Much Noise…
Mast Mood oil: Kavach Beej, Kesar, Jeera, Shilajit, Amla, Long, Soanth, Chitrak, Makoy, Musli Safed, Makoy, Arjun, Haritaki, Swarnapatri, Sankhpuspi,
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A Year Later
I just read my journal from March 10, 2020. I wasn’t thinking about the plague or the end of the
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A Return To Salsa
On February 27th, I danced salsa for the first time in 51 weeks.
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First Job Out of College…
Due to moderate demand from friends contacting me on the passing of Larry Flynt, I decided to share about my
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Valentine’s Day
Women perform 2x to 10x more housework than men, even when they make the same income. I don’t have this
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A New Day For Migrant Farm Workers
I was in my car in 2015 when I heard the now classic excerpt from this speech in which the
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A Tribute To My Foiled Vision Board of 2016
At the end of 2015 my mother had been gone for not even a year. But I still felt I
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Bring On The Quarantine (aka, 9 Months of Living Solo In A Pandemic)
March: Quarantine for two weeks? Heck no! Are you kidding me? *existential breakdown* December: Quarantine till June 2021? No prob,
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Dancing Salsa In Quarantine
There are far worse problems right now, but oh my god do I miss my dancing life.
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Following The Election From Hawaii
I didn’t plan to come to Hawaii for the election, as it was largely out of my control. Hawaii did
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La Catrina
As part of my reorientation to the stay at home nature of the pandemic, I have re-connected with my inner
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Plague, Fires, Earthquake, Dictator…
This year. What. Is. It. With. 2020. *ginormous question mark* I consider myself a person who can tolerate a lot
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Joined A Bike Gang
I am still having a very hard time with writing. Keeping up with the news, the awareness of the suffering
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