Thank you, Thomas Leonard.

Helen Mirren is spectacular (no surprise there). What did surprise me is how human she made the Queen, far more than she did in THE QUEEN. I’m not particularly interested in the monarchy––I don’t rush out to buy PEOPLE when Kate’s on the cover––but this really did offer such a unique and ...

On Sunday, I saw the last performance of THE VISIT with Chita Rivera (82 years old). A moment of theater history, complete with her standing ovation (which must have lasted for 3 minutes) the moment she walked on stage. And then endless applause at the line “I’m unkillable.” And then anot...

I have been very delinquent lately re: Social Media + Blogging + Newsletter-ing. There have been lots of reasons for resistance about this, including an internal debate between “Is anybody listening/Does anybody care?” to “What do I know about anything…?” I’ve also been ...

I stumbled on this quote this morning as I’m getting ready to launch my first online pilot for THE YOGA OF MONEY (and my first ever online course period.) Honestly nothing helps me get ready like a deadline. And, as Douglas Adams said, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they g...

HAND TO GOD on Broadway is so brilliant and so hilariously funny I felt the same adrenaline rush I’ve only had after a 10K run. Plus it stars Geneva Carr, a student from my Laughing Lotus days who is mindblowingly great onstage. #Genius #DarkComedy

  Working away on the new book proposal and have decided that NOW is the time to really get down with the material. IE, if you really want to master something, just try teaching it. So this Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 I’m doing a semi-secret (and totally FREE) Beta-Testing Workshop of the content. ...

Lena Dunham devotes about 12 pages of NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL to her food diary, calculating the caloric value of every morsel she consumed. In tribute, still recovering from my cold, here’s my spoken word diary for the day  (note: all before 7:45pm when I teach a class followed by my 9pm budgeting mee...

(especially when you have a terrible cold….)