My western screenplay is getting some love.
Here’s to more in 2021! Go, Teton Reckoning!
~ debi
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Teton Reckoning FINALIST at Ojai Film Festival
Ojai, California is a fun venue. What an honor to be a finalist at the seventeenth annual Ojai Film Festival!
Novotny and a team of readers selected five finalists:
The Lean by Pearse Lehane, Memeloose by Elizabeth Winters, Kaffarah (Atonement) by Tom Rossi, Teton Reckoning by Debi Yazbeck, and Black Swan Records by Nia Ashley.
The biggest honor by far was billing on the same page as Lifetime Achievement Award winners Dean Cundey and Tab Hunter.
Thank you, Ojai Film Festival!
- debi
FERAL Semi-finalist Selection at the Austin Revolution Film Festival
Woohoo! 
I’m so honored to have been chosen as a semi-finalist with my short drama FERAL.
I can’t wait to attend Austin Revolution Film Festival!
-debi
Addicted
I can’t stop myself. I can’t control it. Will power evaporates…
Wait for it…
Jigsaw puzzles. I’m addicted to jigsaw puzzles. Hopelessly.
I just finished this thousand piece puzzle yesterday morning before work (yeah, tell me about it). One of the more difficult puzzles I’ve worked on, so it was especially satisfying.
I showed Ken the finished product when he got home from work yesterday (our third wedding anniversary) and he asked me what I’d be working on next. Then he said, “I have a couple gifts for you.”
One of my favorite movies ever is — Woman in Gold . 
And look at my gift! Woohoo!
Today — the first day of our fourth year of wedding bliss, I am indulging in this box of shameless addiction!
(As I sip my gin on the rocks.)
- debi
RIP Dixie Yazbeck
October 26, 2001 – May 14, 2016.
Dixie has been my constant roommate, travel companion and comforter for almost fifteen years.
Little pieces of life leave. Fissures in the dam. And I cry endlessly with each. Those fissures repair themselves eventually or that dam would break and I’d flood all life downstream.
I imagine Towanda Yazcat and Fefe will terrorize me for a few days as they adjust to not having Dixie to pick on (don’t get me wrong – she loved the attention). And I’m a big sloppy mess.
I love you, Dixie. Forever.
- debi
Today
TODAY
*
Rain gone
Steam floats, surrounds with dawn,
burns off…
Today!
Clear blue frames greens
sharp tipped, round, sap – drip, drip,
greens lime & iridescent,
greens deep, dark, black…
Rotate!
Shadows sharp as a briar’s sting
No haze,
no smudge of summer
too soon here…
Gather!
Laughter of friends, family
Cocoon of love, harmony
Thank you, Life
My life
Our life
*
– debi
