Recently, in a class I’m taking, my teacher took a vote: “How many people begin writing something and don’t finish it?” To my surprise a lot of people raised their hands. I’m not claiming to have a secret or claiming I’m special. If anything, I tend to sway the opposite direction. I’m someone who waits for the muse to whisper in my ear. In my experience, once I have an idea it harasses me. It’s almost exhausting because...
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I am being drawn, down the smooth cobblestone streets, the moon dangling in the sky like an oversized ornament. In the pockets of my overcoat my hands clench, and I breathe out visible wispy clouds. A metallic sound clangs nearby and I throw myself against the wall of the alley in the shadows, holding my breath, scanning. From the next street down, a raccoon turns and watches me with greedy eyes, its paws clutching something from the...
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For those of you who don’t already know, I have a slightly dark sense of humor. Finding a laugh has always helped me dance through tragedy or misfortune. Mel Brooks once said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” We all have a little dark side – like when you see your cat sleeping peacefully, while dangling precariously, at the edge of the bed and you have that...
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In college my roommates and I used to leave each other little dry erase notes on the huge bathroom mirror above the sinks. You know friendly reminders like: Please take out the trash. Please wash your multiple dishes there is no room in the sink for me to wash my one dish. FYI I ate the last of your spinach. I’ll buy you more. (Note: The spinach was going to be my dinner and I was the only one who didn’t have a car) Remove your moldy...
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“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne closing the poem that gave Ernest Hemingway the title of his books For Whom the Bell Tolls. The meaning of the poem is about connectedness, that our actions affect each other, and in this interconnection we rely on each other to survive, succeed, and to thrive. The saying goes in the film world, as in other collaborative endeavors, that “it takes a village.” Even...
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