What a Novel Can't Do

Girls and the Three-Minute Monologue Without Words

As one does, when one has spent a little too much time in the trenches of Reylo tags on Twitter, one ends up watching “Hanna Finds Out about Jessa and Adam” a pivotal scene from the HBO series Girls, written by Lena Dunham. In this scene, the lead character (played by Dunham) discovers that her […]

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Imposter Syndrome, Meet FOMO

Spent the afternoon watching interviews with my favorite current actors. I’m like, “well, Imma head out.” Because I don’t know how I’m ever gonna get to that level. The stories they’ve told, man. The directors they’ve worked with. How the hell am I supposed to measure up to that? And then there’s another part of […]

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lament o’er a dark moon

a prayer

Moon / like a fire in the trees / round, equal, and hot with anger. / Show us your mother’s face…

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David Bowie: How to Be Authentic

This time is chaos. This time is magic.

Always, always remember that the reason you initially started working was that there was something inside your self that you felt that if you could manifest it in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society. -David Bowie, musician & entertainer

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On Letting the Past Die and Starting from Scratch

How to toss and turn every night for 6 months.

But I have a crazy inkling, my heart aching with nostalgia as I gaze at the artifacts of my creative past. I could make something wonderful and entirely new, if I can let the past die and harness all that nostalgia into the present…

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Nina Simone: "Pursuing Excellence"

Raising black voices on #BlackoutTuesday

“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about … now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.” – Nina Simone

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Representation Matters

How it can be healing to see yourself in the stories you're told.

I believe in the power of storytelling to transform, re-educate, and even repair the human mind.

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