After a lovely day –– coffee at Acre, planning meeting, lunch at the super-zen, super-gorgeous, Japanese Tea Garden, and teaching a private client  ––Adrian and I had an early dinner at Don Pistos. It’s true that on my very first visit, I went with Susan at 7pm, but that was before I registered with ...

Monday morning I reconstructed my to do list — there were an overwhelming number of activities on it — and my usual system of sorting things (based on SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE) just wasn’t helping. Creating a David Neagle inspired list of “Miracle Generating” ac...

No Oscars for us on Sunday night. Instead, Adrian and Belle and I went to the rescheduled Simone Dinnerstein concert at the Montalvo Arts Center, an easy hour drive from San Francisco into bucolic countryside. It’s your basic Italianate villa on 175 acres that a Senator built in the 20s and left to t...

Today Adrian and I had our morning coffee at Acre and afterwards returned home to plan our latest adventures. I realized that when I decided that I really had to do some yoga simultaneously while returning the call to one of my famous friends Andrea Lake while in headstand for five minutes, that I am livin...

So yesterday I received about 200 messages congratulating me for the appearance of my dropback painting in the New York Times.  It was fantastic and a little overwhelming. We’re talking about my speed dials & people I haven’t spoken to in 20 years;  people I’ve just met & folks I&...

Woke up this morning with a rough plan of the day sketched out at dinner last night with Adrian, mostly of some work I had to do [more screenplay edits + a bid for a small directing gig … that sort of thing] and a list of various activities for us during his visit. Then, while checking email from my ...

While shopping for a few select Christmas gifts this year, I fell deeply in love with a scarf (well, two scarves actually) and I couldn’t decide which to give Adrian.  And I really wanted one.  So I bought the two variations — blue and gold — and gave one to him in NYC and one to myself i...

Woke up this morning to good news:  we have a foreign sales agent for UPWARD DOG. I love foreign sales because besides sharing the book with more people, it’s also pretty much Found Money.  You’ve done the work already, so it’s like extra windfalls of cash. YOGA IN BED & YOGA FOR SUI...

First, one absurdly simple solution to a problem occurred today –– a spa MIRACLE as it were –– that I’m not going to relate in full here but … let’s just say it’s VERY good news and solved my biggest cash flow problem of the week effortlessly and unexpectedly...