make your own kick ass Troop Beverly Hills costume

buckle up, it's officially spooky season!!!!!!

There’s absolutely nothing I love more than fall. Sweaters and apple orchards, hot cider and fire pits, pumpkins and skeletons and ~ COSTUMES ~ COSTUMES ~ COSTUMES!!!!!

I had no idea I was a theater kid until I was in my mid-thirties. I think it took having my own kid for me to connect to the joy of low-stakes creativity and play. I was in my MFA then and everything creative felt fraught and intense and shitty. But through being a mom I relearned how to color, how to make a puppet out of an old sock, how to build a train track labyrinth across the living room, how to dance and sing and make up stories just for fun.

Just because these are nice things about being alive.

When I moved back to Chicago, I made a lot of new friends in the comedy and storytelling scenes. It seemed like they’d always known they were theater kids. They’d been to theater school or had written and performed one-person shows or started improv groups or storytelling shows and they were making me laugh and inspiring m…