I was on a school field trip to Balls Falls when I decided it would be fun to slide down the side of a steep hill, sans toboggan. As I...

There are a lot of things I find difficult to swallow. Food prices, the cost of housing, the number of women directors who have won...

When I was in grade school, my best friend was a girl named Trina. I wanted to be her. Everyone did. At ten, she was already tall, thin,...

When I was in grade 3, the elementary school I attended thought it would be a great idea to show a series of safety videos once a month...

A few years ago, I was directing a play out of town, and the producers put me up in a hotel. One of those Super 8-type places where the...

When I lived in Los Angeles, I had a friend who had a friend who made a living by getting hit by cars. As I understood it, she would wait...

(B)Rats! At one point in my early 20s, all my girlfriends seemed to collect other people's children as though they were their own. Every...

This story begins with a man, dark hair like a crow with kind eyes behind tortoiseshell rims and a beard like ink—a conversation over an...

A month after college graduation, Showboat Festival Theatre hired me to teach their youth drama program. Like taxidermy or sheep...

The closest I've ever come to being involved in any kind of insurrection was when I was in Paris a few years ago, and the Yellow Vest...

I'd been sitting on a plane at JFK airport for about 45 minutes when the pilot came on and said, "Sorry folks, but we seem to be having...

My husband told me about this woman he knows whose boyfriend dumped her while she was at work. He texted her, saying: When you get home...

There are certain situations where I find myself overly stressed. For example, while checking out my groceries at the grocery store, I...

"Can I have a birthday party?" I asked my mother a few days before I turned five. "No. They're too much trouble," she replied and...

I recently purchased a copy of Grant Writing for Dummies because I'm an idiot when it comes to applications. Full disclosure, I've never...

"I have to go to Bermuda," I announced to my father one afternoon in September. "Have to, as in, longing to go?" my father asked. "As in,...

When I was young, no one ever sat me down and told me that I could do anything I wanted. There were no pep talks about how I could...

About three weeks into my studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, my acting teacher, Mr. Gushee, asked me, "How did you hear...

A few years ago, my husband and I were at a production of Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway when the woman next to me pulled out a bag of...

Tonight, was one of those popcorn and banana muffin dinners I have very infrequently, but still more often than I care to admit. I didn't...