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Talking to My Boy About Girls: Movies

Thor: What if I wanted to change my name so that it was really Thor, and not just my nickname?

Me: Sure, kid. You just have to wait until you are 18.

Thor: Okay! Can everyone change their name?

Me: Yes, you just have to pay for it.

Thor: Oh.

Me: Do you think it would be cool if everyone changed names every few years?

Thor: Yes! Oh…no. No. Because we might all end up with the same name, or something. Like, all the girls would end up named Elsa.

Me: And all the boys would be named IronMan?

Thor...

Let Them Eat Cake

Back when I was working at That Ministry, it was widely acknowledged that no one was allowed to speak to the Big Guy because he was very important to God, and if we interrupted his day, we might be disrupting whatever was going on between him and God at that moment. We called it, “Breaking his anointing.” You didn’t want to break his anointing because then he might not be able to perform whatever miracle God had called him to do that day.

I can’t tell you why I fell for that, but I did. Then,...

This is How a Road Gets Made

I swim in a pretty small social pond. It is mainly comprised of middle class, moderate-to-well educated, straight, white people. Most of us are fiscally conservative, and are socially moderate-to-liberal. Of my core group of friends, over half would self-identify as some strain of Protestant Christian. We are all gainfully employed, all with children, mortgages, and car payments, and most of us are able to take pretty decent vacations. We are rather homogeneous.

You know what you get when you...

Still Listening to my Mother

I’ve been planning my participation in the Listen to Your Mother Austin show like some women plan for their weddings. I have an outfit, shoes, jewelry, hair and makeup all queued up, and you might laugh to know that most of it came on the advice of my mother.

In my piece for LTYM, I’m talking a lot about how my mother influenced me. I barely touch on the fashion, but if anyone has ever complimented my style, it’s my mother who helped make that happen.

When she was expecting me, she couldn’t a...

Risk Factors

The Listen To Your Mother Austin cast had our first table read yesterday. I walked away feeling warm and hopeful, and really fortunate to have my mother, and to have my son.

Listen To Your Mother Austin 2015 cast.

When I sent in my original essay to start my LYTM audition process, I didn’t have expectations. I didn’t even tell anyone until I’d secured an actual audition. Almost anyone. I got my most difficult audience out of the way before I had even heard back from the LYTM producers: my mom...

No More Wire Hangers!

Robyn and I have been dancing in place, trying to hold it together long enough to wait for pre-order links before showing you the cover of Mommie Diarist. Well, we have them, and HERE IT IS!

Motherhood makes you crazy. There is no function of life that will make you more certifiably insane. Whether you are crazy in love, crazy busy, or just being driven up the wall,there is no insanity more worthwhile. Mommie Diarist is about the good, the bad, and the boldfaced. It is a collection of honest...

Random Thoughts!

Tickets are on sale for Listen To Your Mother Austin!

There are two shows on April 25, one at 3pm, and one at 7pm. Of course, I will be at both, telling you about how awesome my mother is.

This past weekend, we drove up to Oklahoma City. On the way, we did a lot of talking, and Mom mentioned something that had happened when I was in elementary school, and I was amazed at how she had managed to normalize what was a tense situation. See, when I was in early elementary school, my bus driver took m...

The Pain of Beauty

Is there anything in [a writer’s] life more painful than getting back those first editorial notes? I’ve been through the process enough to know that it is the psychic equivalent of getting a bikini wax from a very angry, poorly trained woman. Each time I’ve gotten those notes, it’s looked something like, “We love your manuscript! Now change everything,” and is accompanied by a two page list of everything I liked and the words, “This needs to go.”

Okay. That’s an exaggeration, but that’s how it...

Lady at Lunch

I work in a very diverse neighborhood, so I have a multitude of choices at lunchtime. This works out well because I love trying new food. The downside is how exhausting it can be to work up the nerve to walk into a restaurant where no one speaks your language fluently, where you can’t read the menu, and where you may not be sure of what you’ve ordered even after you’ve eaten it.

I thought I was ordering a simple lunch combo at one place, and ended up with the entire left hand side of a menu si...

Everything is Awesome!

I wasn’t sure how long I would have to wait to find out the results of my Listen to Your Mother audition. It turned out I didn’t have to wait long at all. Yay! I have been announced as a cast member of the 2015 show in Austin! Yay!

I am excited, and excited, and excited!

It is huge validation to know that my essay and performance were appreciated, but it thrills my soul that the work is about the respective awesomeness of my mother and my son. Doesn’t get much better than that.