I remember telling my parents when I first met the man who is now my ex-husband. I started with the positives– he was college educated, worked with the touring company of Chicago’s acclaimed Second City, studied with the Cambridge Footlights in England and had toured the world a few times over as a performer. Then […]
One of the most annoying things that I heard repeatedly after I left my husband was the following. “I just broke up with my boyfriend, I know exactly how you feel” I know that my friends who told me that were trying to make me feel better. They were trying to show empathy and a […]
I know one of the comedians who made this video. I had nothing to do with it, but I wanted to share it because I find it extremely funny and dead on as far as dating in NYC is concerned. This is why I am so cautious about who I let “enter the kingdom” because […]
Anyway this is meant as self-deprecating humor. I am after all a comedian. I am a lousy dater because for my entire adult life I have been a serial monogamist so I really don’t know how to do the date thing. I talk to much, I reveal too much, and I am too hyper…but I […]
I would love to write that post-divorce I handled my online social media profiles with grace, restraint and dignity, but that it would be a total and utter fabrication. What I did instead was to vomit my personal hell and torment over the internet, and was unapologetic about it. In some ways I regret it, […]
I used to perform as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty at birthday parties for little girls. Something about re-telling the stories to these young impressionable females got to me, and suddenly one day I just couldn’t do it anymore. The high budget films watched repeatedly are far more influential to them, but I still didn’t want […]
