From the very beginnings of my storytelling career, I have been obsessed with the question of what it means to be a woman in a world that privileges men. My first produced play was about two women with ten “genderless” children who return home to...
Battling Cancer, Living with ALS
My beloved friend Charlene was recently diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. A number of years ago she underwent a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy because she had the BRCA gene. These operations are known to radically reduce the chances...
Bobo the Punching Bag: Reflections on Anger
When I was about five years old and prone to temper tantrums, my mother, who had majored in child psychology in college, gave me a blowup punching bag called “Bobo.” Bobo was about my height and was weighted so as to spring back up after...