

Let's Share the Ball
There's a caricature of me that used to be in front of the Comedy Warehouse. In it, I'm playing basketball. When the artist drew it he...
My Comedy vs. Your Sensibility
At the risk of being a downer on a comedy blog, the world is kind of in disarray right now. Bad news overwhelms good. Tears and anger...


Dinner for One and Many
Matt is away tonight which is always a little bittersweet. Time alone in your home is nice, but you build the home to share it with...


Carrie Fisher as Role Model
The Princess died today. Usually I find celebrity grief off-putting; as though people are diminishing their own lives and people they...


North Pole, Alaska
Christmas is a series of compromises. It's everyone doing the best they can & praying - some to baby Jesus in a manger, others that the...


Ornamentaddict
Last night we put up our Christmas tree. It's a ritual we love. Set up the tree. Play amateur chiropractor. Align the Jaclyn Smith...
Sad, Convention of One
You know those circumstances where you actively avoid the person who is putting themselves out there? In NYC it would be the college...
Hey Hey It's the Monkey!
Before Johns Street we lived in downtown Madison in a beautiful old house on Rutledge Street across the street from a little park with a...


Ten Days
It has been ten days since the Pulse shootings on June 12th, 2016. Reactions have been as diverse as America. There have been peace...
Out in Africa.
A life in the arts can be an exhausting proposition. You have to use everything you are and everything you feel. If you don’t, that fear...



















