This is an encore name drop! The great John Travolta once asked me “Do you think it’s ok if I drop out of high school? To which I said, “You’ll never amount to anything if you do that.” I was wrong.

My reading list of late strongly suggests I am a teenage girl. I’m finally having my delayed literary adolescence.

Fire alarm in building with favorite coffee place. You could see  everyone debating whether to stay and finish their coffee or pack up their computers and evacuate. False alarm. Coffee and bagel still there when I returned. PHEW!

Sadly, adding a second pistachio/cranberry biscotto to my afternoon soy latte break did not double my writing output. Perhaps I’ll go with a brownie next time.

Witty* quip re Phillip Glass Autobiography.

Person 1: It’s kind of boring.

Person 2: Same words on every page?

*I can say this because I can’t take credit for the wit.

For the last 90 minutes it’s been a stuck record with occasional sighs. And yet, I can write to it, while the chirping of a cardinal outside my office window completely distracts me. Go figure.

I think the last adult nonfiction tome I read was What to Expect When You’re Expecting.*  This biography of Robert E. Lee is stunning. You should read it.**

*That was slightly after the Lower Canada Rebellion. Look it up.

**Caveat: I knew the author, Jonathan Horn, when he was a wee lad, but I only promote excellent books, really, honestly. I know lots and lots of writers (ok, some are dead, but I did know them), and I only hype the best stuff.

But, despite its bad writing and endless cliches I’m going to finish it because I bought it and it was expensive.

I don’t have to remember anything for more than five minutes.

*No snide remarks like “You call that a living?” I am very sensitive.

So I said to myself, the title of my blog is boring! The visuals are boring! Time for them to be more like my thoughtful and witty posts.* It’s also truth in advertising, for I am, in fact, an actor, writer, and rabbi’s wife. I don’t walk into bars much, though, for I can be wiped out by a single Mojito.

*You know the drill. No snide remarks.