Friday night I got to hang out with one of my best friends, Catheryn. We like to get together and craft and talk cats. In other words, things Husbands Don’t Do. Larry has been a prince, giving up nights while we do girlie things in the Craft Clubhouse. (It usually also includes re-watching “Poldark” and drinking tea.) This night, I hung out at Catheryn’s in midtown. We walked a few blocks to Koreatown, shopped at an…
I haven’t blogged for a few days. I started to feel like I had nothing new or interesting to report. At least, that’s what I told myself. It’s easy to let a discipline slip, especially if it’s something positive. Yeah, life is good. I got it from here. Besides, it can get very selfish. What good vibes can I acquire today, for myself? It eliminates the most important part of the equation: relationship. Relationship with the Person who’s made all this…
Ash Wednesday came and went. Friday, I got a last-minute audition. I’d set my mind to look for joy. guess it paid off, because I got the job. I don’t want to be one of those “Hanging with Ryan Gosling, God is good” jerks. If that’s how God is good, then what about the rest of the planet? But I hadn’t worked a lot in the past five years, not as a writer or an actor – even adjunct teaching dried up…
I learned a thing or two about Lent over the weekend. 1) The reason Lent is 46 days and not 40 is because you take Sundays off. 2) You can take Sundays off. You can eat chocolate, troll Facebook and be snarky. I peeked around Facebook – no posting, just to see if I’d missed anything important. Here’s what I’d missed: Candy Crush requests. Ads for “the Silicon Valley hoodie that’s breaking the Internet.” And, of course, political…
