Almost 16 yrs ago Kirk started a season of Law &Order playing Jerry Orbach’s partner. That Jerry was dying of cancer became painfully evident and made the whole silly business of production dicey to impossible. That Kirk loved him from their 1st interaction is not overstatement. Jerry spent his last months doing what he loved, acting, even if it meant coming to work with a fever or accepting Kirk’s hand or shoulder to steady him through the day.

I was in my last trimester with Scarlett when I visited set and having gotten too far from Kirk’s trailer I

“Mommy there was this really scary man in here.”

I leapt from the bath, dressed with such furious intention while still dripping wet, which is yes, as unpleasant as it sounds, and was speeding down the road in under a minute. “I’ll be there in 3” I tell her.

I text Kirk something incomprehensible and he FaceTimes me while I’m running lights and inventing my own road rules.

“F*ck. I’ll be there in 19 minutes” I hear my husband say.

The owner of the place was already there.

I couldn’t get my Uber because of “connectivity issues” so I just started walking down La Cienega until I had more than one bar.

A tiny little elderly woman was struggling with two grocery bags.

I wondered who let Grandma out with errands to run but no ride. I offered to carry her bags and she was happy to let me..

She was taking bagels to her son who lived in a group home. Robert had menengits as a boy and it left him severely handicapped and unable to speak. He lived with 8 others and she took the bus to see him every day. And they like bagels.

WEDNESDAYS CHILD
Verushka knew the term, "ragged born" applied to her. Left from her first minute in a screaming pile for others to poorly attend to her Mother had moved on without so much as a look back. Who could blame her?Verushka didn't. Blame would suggest an underlying hurt that she really couldn't, wouldn't or just didn't feel. What drug addled prostitute wants to be reminded of that stinking sailor on leave?
Veru even came to accept that her Mother would pretend to not know her when those awkward moments of meeting on the train station happened.

If you take a dogsled ride at Krabloonik, outside of Aspen, after you take your thrilling ride but before your dinner in the restaurant, they ask that you thank every furry member in your dogsled crew.
Everyone starts with the Alpha who looks like he could've starred in a Disney film. There was another yipping silly dog who constantly licked my shoes. My guess is he'd never known a still moment in his life. I have and forever will have a soft spot for clowns.
But I was most drawn to a timid member in the back of the pack. I petted her and told her she

In the Old Testament, the original and most draconian law around, if a woman suffered a miscarriage due to a scuffle with her, all that was owed was a fine. As if property was damaged.
Kind of does in the argument of the sanctity of unborn life. Jesus never mentioned abortion. After Roe v Wade was made law the Southern Baptist Convention had no issue with it and saw opposition to abortion as a Catholic issue because of the kerfuffle over contraception. Took them almost a decade to realize it was to their political advantage to be selectively outraged.

The arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell should only serve as a call to arms for all of us. These people are out there. I once watched a 50 yr old woman take pictures of Scarlett on the sly when my 15 yr old was in line at Chipotle. She looked alone because I hate Chipotle (no judgement) I was watching a distance away in the foodcourt getting Japanese. The woman was tucked in next to a kiosk but would lean out to take pictures with her phone of Scarlett, then text furiously. My background lends itself to some unique knowledge. This woman was no paparazzo.