San Francisco ...

If any of you hear of a 1 bedroom apartment under 2500 for rent in San Francisco, please let me know.
We are looking in the Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, Nob Hill, Hayes Valley, Russian Hill areas.
We are doing craig's list of course , but just in case, might as well, spread the word.
Oh... for August 1st !
Thanks ~!

I'll be back like the Frenchinator.

I know, I know. I've been away forever.
But I'll be back. Come fall.
I am busy writing the new Naplwrimo site. And moving to San Francisco.
If you can, help Naplwrimo out and give a few dollars. ( move down the page until you see National Playwriting Month. You won't regret it. It is like a whole new world.

See you in late August, when I will begin my grad school blogging and announce the launch of the new NaPlWriMo site !!!

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

Equality is common sense.

Woohoo and also...

This is once again a case where an apology would have been necessary.
It's great to correct a mistake but it's pretty hard for people to even notice that you are correcting your error in judgment if you don't apologize for the fuck-up.
In this case the fuck-up being made of " we don't think gay people are people too."
I am thinking instead of saying "oh nevermind we were wrong, they are people too ; now everybody clap" they needed to really really really apologize for all the years of injustice, have that land and then maybe announce the change in law.
But the state is not people... the state is the state.... the state doesn't need to apologize.

WRONG.

Thank you owldolatrous for really helping me see something important about the issue. .
They didn't do it so here it is :

I am very very very sorry that for all these years the state of California treated you like you weren't real.

It's not a celebration. It's f*%$#* common sense people.
Equality is common sense, not some sort of gift.

Mother's Day can be hard...

when your mother is not around.
I made this mix for my mother today and thought some of you would enjoy it.
Call your mother if you are lucky enough to have her around.

From rain to fog...

"Just throw in even one line about the street outside your window at the time you were carving that spoon. It is good practice.
We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do. "
Natalie Goldberg.

That's what I got when I did that meme. You know that meme where you go to page 123, read the first 5 sentences and post the next 3. That one. It just so happened that Natalie Goldberg "Writing down the Bones" was the closest book.
It made me think. Wow, if that's the book that 's the closest to me, surely I must be a writer. Surely, all writers have Natalie Goldberg as their closest book.
But then I caught myself thinking that maybe it just means that I need inspiration to write and that I am just one of these writers who is always looking for inspiration and never sits down to actually do the thing they do. But didn't someone say that half of writing is not writing ? I can't remember who that was.
Anyway, I am not going to go into a meditation on writing.
I've actually got some big news ( if anyone still reads this blog of mine...).

I've been accepted to grad school for drama therapy in San Francisco. I am not putting the name of the school down because I am hoping I can keep that blog somewhat separate, but we'll see... you'll have to google if you want to know what school it is. It's kind of a big deal because they only take like 18 people a year and there are only two schools in the U.S where you can get a masters in drama therapy. I first looked into that school in 1998 and it's 2008 and now I am actually going there. Kuhrayyyzy. Also, I've been in Seattle since then and then some , so it's actually a big move and a big change. I am glad that I am not doing that one alone and that my husband is coming with me. He even got authorization to finish his dissertation from down there and he'll have a desk at a lab in the south bay. So... wow, yeah... deep breath.
It's not time for babies yet. I thought it might be there for a while, but now I see it's not.
It's time for more school and a big huge move and then maybe babies.

I am going to revamp this blog and use it as my school process blog. I have been fascinated by the intersection of psychology and theatre for a long time , so I am pretty psyched to be getting into it deep. The degree itself is an M.A in Counseling Psychology and I will also get my licence in marriage and family therapy.
I don't really know what I'll do when I am done but somehow I just know it's going to lead to something really cool for me, and maybe even to having a career and a job I like while still being involved with theatre and story.

I hope you'll keep reading my ramblings and that you are as excited for me as I am !

Change is good and this one is needed.

In fact, I even changed my hair yesterday.





I start in September. We'll move in July. Get ready to add me to the list of San Francisco theatre people ~! Elizabeth, here I come !!!

Will you die for art ?

Is this art ?
You tell me...

She believed in goodness.

This story is as tragic as they get.