Idiot Syncracies

It is a funny thing how the brain works. Today I found myself wrestling with how to restructure a screenplay I'm working on. A truste...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Our culture is weird. We revere the fake, the untrue, the unreal. ...

BAM! Out of nowhere the name of this childhood game came whizzing through my mind. Tiddlywinks. Seriously? What a bizarre name for a game. A...

Years ago a gorgeous woman told me that she viewed her boobs as power tools in the workplace...male bosses refused her nothing. Recently a n...

In the old days, moving into a new house was considered the height of stressful. Well...forget making copies of keys. Or hanging art on the ...

Out my window I see a man wearing a giant, white space suit. I’m not kidding. From the office of my new job writing for a technology giant, ...

I like to make up words. It's not that I sit around and think, 'Hmmm...what word can I make up today?' The way it works is this:...

I had a huge realization the other day. Huge. Okay, so I'm a writer, right? Right. I Write. Typically, when I send a screenplay out to p...

There are a lot of rules in our culture and generally I follow them, but I’m not immune to how unbelievably stupid most of them are. I’d lik...

She watches as the pictures dance in her head Of all the days and faces and simpler times. She closes her eyes thinking about the curse of t...

Something had felt off for a while. She didn't know exactly what it was, but she was on the hunt for the switch to flip that would open ...

You are a fine upstanding month, March. It wasn't my intention to ignore you here in blog town. I am deeply sorry. Don't worry April...

It’s early morning and I’m Standing in front of a brick wall at the bus stop Listening to my itunes, trying not to cry. Suddenly a man comes...

clean slate. fresh start. clear mind. clean house. excavate fridge. sweep under bed. look in closet, make friends with the darkest corners. ...

She’s on trial for a crime. A situation out of control. A knife, the dark Two children at home. She struggles. Watch. Watch her. The juror c...

They gather together And dream a dream Absently swatting flies While tormenting Themselves With possibilities. They comment On the daily new...

It is the season of the long darkness The sun Is low on the horizon We wait In the cold For light LIGHT Makes vision possible The sharing of...

It's halloween. The little kidlets have come and gone. The entire month has come and gone in a blur. Tonight is daylight savings time. I...

The dictionary defines resilience as the ability to return to the original form, position etc. after being bent or stretched. Resilience al...

Have you ever stopped to consider the color beige? Beige is the color of billions of walls across the nation. It is the color of a kajillion...

There are times when you look up from the flurry of activity that is your life and you think 'Wow...time sure flies by!' or ' I ...

Today is my birthday. Last night my sweet friend Annie Ready died. Tomorrow has its own mysterious offering.