Songbook Stories

I’ve spent the last few years studying screenwriting in all of my spare time. This is a short script I submitted in for a 48 hour short screenplay challenge. My suggestions were a Piano bar, a newspaper article in a ghost story.

It’s Going to be a Long 10 Weeks.

I wonder what the dystopian writers in Hollywood are writing about these days? I spent at least the first six weeks of the pandemic in a state of genuine gratitude that my mom was dead, she passed last August, and that I still had a job. I was also grateful that I had visited one […]

Drop H- Bomb Here

I’m a lazy person. I work as little as I can possibly get away with, I take my trash cans out the night before so I don’t have to wake up at 8am on Wednesdays, and sometimes I’m too lazy to be a feminists. Oh, I’m also stupid. Like “flunked remedial math in community college […]

More Fun with Teeth Gritting and Hunches!

Right before Thanksgiving I was sitting down to write a blog post about how at times, I’m really glad that both of my parents are dead. And I was, and it truly is, and then my caregiver skills (e.g. warm body) were desperately needed and it was at that very moment that I remembered that […]

I’m Just Here. Trying to Not Lose My Mind.

Like most Americans, I’ve spent the better part of the last 16 months of this pandemic developing new hobbies. Mine has been getting angry at everyone online. Maybe that’s not really a new hobby but it sure is time consuming. As an aging American woman, there’s a seemingly endless supply of things to get angry […]

An Open Letter to “Jamie” Parnell Spears from a Guardian Mom.

photo from bbc.com

Bishops will be Boys.

Catholic kids were always the meanest. I grew up Catholic and not in the “we went to Church” way but in the “Catholic school going, participating in a Church life, having the Aunt who knew what Saint to pray to, Marian Missals all over the damn house” Catholic. My Aunt was an Ursuline Sister, my […]

World Autism Day

On World Autism Day I took my adult autistic daughter to get a cystoscopy. The fun, it never ends. I’m not going to go into the myriad of probably stress related medical issues that led to the procedure but suffice to say she has averaged one medical appointment a week in the past year. The […]

My Hot Take on the Movie I Care a Lot

I just watched British screenwriter and director J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot on Netflix about an unethical court appointed guardian. Not only am I in the process of writing a screenplay about guardianship, I’ve worked in the field and I am a guardian for my adult disabled daughter. I’m not an expert but I […]

Let’s Unite in Hate of Both Antifa and QAnon. Now That’s What I Call American!

After this week of rioting and (to be southern about it) unpleasantness, I have watched the smugness of my liberal friends waft from their social media posts with a combination of sadness and, although I hate to admit it, glee. Most of my QAnon friends have either fallen silent or been cranky. But because I […]

2020: The Masked Zinger

Well, well, well. So here we are, 2021. Almost every second of this past year included so many teachable moments. You could say it was a year where everyone was an exceptional parent. That’s the term used in the US to describe someone who ends up with a special needs child; the Exceptional Parent. These […]