Just got dropped off by Dan after dinner with Susan and Adrian and Belle at Plant, and lent him my car so that he can traipse off to Ecstatic Dance tomorrow morning (Adrian and I will be at Bikram and then going to the owner Bev’s birthday pizza moment.) Post client call, this morning devoted to The ...

Bikram with Adrian –– he is so brave! –– in the morning, followed by an ASTONISHING $5 haircut in Chinatown. Then we executed a highly successful errand for the Secret Project (more will be revealed) in between laundry and then teaching a private client before dashing off to pick up Dan who was arriving fo...

No — Life is NOT a Cabaret:   Life is A Fragile Picnic. When I left my (momentary) moment in LA and put everything in storage, I loved the label of the lowest box in the foreground:  FRAGILE PICNIC. The main thing in that box is this fantastic chartreuse picnic basket that Adrian bought me as an Xmas...

You know how all your crackpot friends are constantly saying they look at their clocks or watches at 11:11 and that it’s mystical/angelic/alien … ? Well, what keeps happening to me is that I look up at the thermometer in Bikram and it’s 111.1 degrees –– I’m not kidding.  And it̵...

Let me cut to the chase:  I passed my driver’s test. Last night, in my dreams, I remember that I went to get the results and was told that my test had been archived for future generations, even though I had one answer wrong.  Why, I asked?  The Dream DMV person said, “It’s ...

Today I experienced: √  Fine-tuning ceiling/trim for Val & Clark √  Edited one colleague’s postcard content (basically drastically minimalized text) for which she was grateful 1 Bikram Class (at 116 degrees), my 49th since May 4th 3 Clients (all of them awesome) 5 DMV practice tests (online) 7 Ep...

Amy and I had a great friend at Yale who had MAJOR Completion Anxiety. Not me.  Not at all. NEAR COMPLETE –– Bikram –– my 48th class since I joined on May 4th (meaning I get a string bracelet after 2 more –– although I think I deserve something extra since the bracelet for 50 started on April 1st — a...

That’s how the Driver’s Ed manual says I should approach dangerous situations. Somehow “Taking Dangers One at a Time (page 53 of the manual) reminded me of this wonderful passage from Anne Lamott’s BIRD BY BIRD. “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was  ten years old at the...

Bikram, then Primer, Surprise Beach Walk w/Amy, Harry/Belle Reunion.