I've been wrestling with kidney disease for seven years now, determined to avoid needing a transplant. I'm still fighting and have never felt better in my life but the labs today are starting to make me worry. My dad was on dialysis before his end and it was not fun. The waiting list for a cadaverous donor is four to five years. Yuck.

Strange. Other things in my life are going so swimmingly. I just placed a humor piece in the LA Times
and my very first play just had a very successful reading at the Lincoln Center Institute. My book is coming along well and my friends who have read it already seem impressed. Oh well.