To me, writing is like playing. Even when it’s rigorous and tough, the practice allows my mind to run wild, experiment, learn, and get lost in joy. Turns out, the same thing happens every week when I go to a drop-in Saturday improv class at led by Clifford Mae Henderson and Dixie Cox of The Fun Institute in Santa Cruz. Typically about thirty people show up at the tiny theater, and for the next few hours, Clifford and Dixie — who’ve been teaching improv since 1993 — have us p