Life Coached by Molly Ivins

What the hell am I doing with my life?

Wait, aren’t you a life coach?

Yep.

And don’t you sound off all the time in your writing?

Why, yes. Yes, I do.

So what do you mean when you question what you’re doing with your life?

I mean, in this Wild West we call journalism and in this new chaotic world order, it seems appropriate and even necessary to wonder — what is my place in all of this lunacy?

How is it possible to bring clarity to others when you yourself are so unclear?

Ah, but I do. I do.

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I have this little internal dialogue on the subway en route to seeing the documentary “Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins” as part of 51 Fest at the IFC Center in New York. The theater is a welcome cool respite from the unhealthy heat radiating off the sidewalks of the West Village.

But quickly I don’t care about any of that. I am belly laughing. I don’t do a lot of that in my life, so it’s like all the daily Trumpy lunacy melts away for a while as I try to keep up with the rapid-fire, gorgeously delivered wit of the late Ivins. Director Janice Engel and her team have paced this so that we are engaged and loosened out of the gate before we…