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I’d just graduated from college and was sharing a NYC cab ride with two parents and their elementary school child. Somehow the topic became “What would you do if you were rich?” The nine year-old could literally only focus on candy. How much candy she would buy for herself. What kind of c...

For some unknown reason, I kept putting down Neil Gaiman’s OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE after 10 pages. And then I brought it with me on a flight to San Francisco and couldn’t put it down. It’s AMAZING. As the New York Times said, “His mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time...

“Go to the ugliest or most forlorn place you know — a drugstore parking lot, the front porch of a crack house, a toxic waste dump, or the place that symbolizes your secret shame — and build a shrine devoted to beauty, truth, and love. Here are some suggestions about what to put in your sh...

Loved this documentary about Andrew Salgado so much I watched it twice on Sunday. Thoroughly recommended as a way into one artist’s creative life. To my horror though, in articles last year his work was selling for $2-3,000…but when I see close-ups of the sale we’re in the $15-20,000 rang...

My great friend @sezinc brought me back this gorgeous mala ‬ from Turkey. I noticed it has the traditional 108 beads and then an extra 30 (which is very rare.) Extensive research (read HERE) reveals that those are for either “acquisition of wealth” or “dexterity in black magic.” Hon...

This Letter from my great friend Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy––the writer known as SARK––is so beautiful and moving, it’s worth sharing in its entirety: My most beloved partner, husband of my soul, co-author & co-teacher Dr. John Waddell, aka Mr. Wonderfull, died on March 5. He slipped away so el...

Nobody said it better: “The art of losing isn’t hard to master…” Thank you again, Elizabeth Bishop. ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost do...