From the Archives: Last month I was feeling a little down and impulsively booked a trip with my grown son for a week in Mexico. Running off is one of my favorite ways of coping with the devastation of the break-up of my relationship of 27 years. Max was on summer break from San Diego […]
Cup of Joe, Java, Jamoke, Mud… Call it what you want, we all know it as coffee and whatever that may be, we all love to enjoy it. Why did coffee become something we do on the run?  Is it the caffeine? After going to Costa Rica and visiting a coffee plantation, I understand all […]
Meredith Baxter is best known for her role as Alyse Keaton, where she played a strong female lead in a popular sitcom at a time where there weren’t many.  Of course I originally fell in love with her on Bridget Loves Bernie, and always noticed her in The Partridge family or Love Boat episodes, and ah […]
I’m a Comedian. I’m a Lesbian. But am I a Lesbian Comedian? Sure! I used to do exclusively clean material. No references to sex or sexuality, maybe a couple of mild double entendres, nothing too dangerous. Working clean has advantages and disadvantages. I can play a county fair and a senior center, something many of […]
I am currently making a feature documentary film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth, about the life and art of Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker. So far it has been an extraordinary journey, allowing me opportunities to meet some amazing and inspiring women, all of who deserve films in their own right. Jewelle Gomez is […]
It all started when I wouldn’t get up on Sunday mornings to go to church. I was an energetic, nervous baby dyke, and I simply could not sit still that long with nothing to engage me. And the old guy up front was talking Latin, for pete’s sake. So, over some of my most formative […]
Thank you to Pirl Harbour for the comment on my blog about Amy Jade Winehouse  (I like to use her full name to separate the artist and person from the object that we and the media made of her). In the piece I said I was comparing her to Sarah Vaughn. My MISTAKE. I really […]
I first started working on my play Sun Sisters years ago, and it had readings in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. With each reading, I rewrote based on what I heard and the subsequent audience feedback. In 2008, it won East West Players Pacific Century Playwriting Competition. It’s been a long road, and now, […]
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie is Curious George on steroids and a shot of Jack Daniels. Since I was a little dykeling, I always wanted a chimpanzee as a pet so he could do my Saturday chores and then we could hang out in our tree house looking at Playboy. Carrying […]
I had hoped that Amy Jade Winehouse would be one of those who made it out of the frightening forest of addiction and emotional instability. It’s not unusual for the indiscretions of artists and performers to be tracked and publicized…it goes with the territory. But I was often surprised at how people revealed their own […]
Hang on, it's going to be a wild ride!
Robin
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