celebrity memoirs

october 2025, to grinch or not to grinch

I think of kids growing up in group homes who either don't receive a single gift or have to pick from a pile of crap repurposed as charity. I think of poor families who cannot afford to buy their kids anything and try desperately to make the memories anyway.

January 2024, stuck on trains

A few months ago, my friends and I bought tickets to see Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Portland, Oregon, a three-ish hour trek for me. But “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry,” and all that, because the weather happened a few days before the show we’d planned on seeing for months.