Happy Year of the Dragon - which symbolizes power, prosperity, honor and success - huzzah! Here I am looking like I've just said something pithy - but I'm actually savoring a delicious cocktail at a bar with a pretty background... in Iceland. We went on an epic trip last September for my birthday - pre volcanic eruptions - and also explored Norway, Amsterdam and London. Back when I was doing my one-woman shows I would promote myself shamelessly, at all hours of the day in venues around the world. Nowadays, I eschew cringy self-regard and prefer to write and daydream in my office in Pasadena (or as we call it in our house, “Punkadena”), the birthplace of the cheeseburger . But here goes... One thing that hasn't changed is my passion for writing mischievous, sexy, strong and flawed female characters, and pen what I like to call, "traumadies." 2023 had some professional boons despite the WGA and SAG strikes. I was interviewed on Pilar Alessandra's "On the