On the way to the beach, a lady in a truck mostly admiring Belle in my convertible said something positive involving the phrase, like “Cool Ride, Daddy-O.”  (Was she a time-traveler perhaps, although I am wearing vintage-style sunglasses?)  We were approaching the beach and Belle was sitting bo...

Call for Desperate Measures. Specifically, I realize –– as per all my David Neagle insights re: subconscious at work to prevent my self-actualization –– that I have been dragging my heels a bit on the novel polish. Granted, I was insanely busy around my birthday, and then NYC was a ...

Until I get through the first six episodes of this season’s TRUE BLOOD. Even though my college friend Jessica Tuck — aka “Nan Flanagan” — met the “True Death” at the end of last season, I decided to give the series a second chance. (The last season was so OVER THE ...

Belle and I awoke for our morning client at 9 am. Then several hours just organizing all that I have to do + responding to basic emails. Got my plane ticket to Seattle for the Alaska cruise in August, although postponing the return flight until plans are more solid. An auspicious return to Bikram, where so...

NYC and the wedding were amazing. And now back with Belle in San Francisco, which — despite how much I loved my centuries in NYC ––  really, really does feel like Home. And now –– sleep!

Yesterday I tried to blog from my phone because I decided to leave my laptop in NYC with Nicky’s doorman before heading off the the wedding Upstate.  That, however, proved to be impossible … and so I missed a day. There’s much to relate but basically the wedding was GORGEOUS –&...

I got up this morning at dawn to walk Belle before my flight to NYC and finally discovered a coffee shop I like that’s open at 6:45 am. Those who know Belle best know that she doesn’t like “Good-Byes” at all.  (Of course, she’s crazy about “Hellos,” but when people depart she tends to shy away vs. her incr...

My refined mailing list has been a total success story.  An extremely high OPEN rate (and it’s actually even higher since Constant Contact admits it can’t always tell who’s opened it), that is more than twice their standard. However, when I looked at the OPT-OUTS (a mere 1.4% of my l...

Morning MIRACLE email and call –– I only want one more client for private yoga and I insist they be walkable and that I can bring Belle –- and that actually happened.  [We meet tomorrow at dawn –– God, that sounds like we’re setting up for a duel with pistols –...