And I mean that not just as a reference to the trashy/awesome sci-fi movie of last year or so. Today I had a weird food reaction –– I think I swallowed wrong, but horribly wrong –– and for about 10 minutes thought I might just die.  (I’m being semi-serious). And so during my daily pilgrimage to Trade...

Why is it all so muddled? My strongest memories of Jodie Foster are dancing with her vaguely at the Beaux Arts Ball, and  in Lit 300 –– a class that rocked my world at Yale –- and a bunch of late night movies, in particular On The Twentieth Century –– but that’s really it.  We never stayed up late br...

So the hardest thing about my appendectomy is that I haven’t been able to do 2.5 of my favorite de-stressing activities.  Spa Hot and Cold Plunges (as per Naomi Campbell, my beauty mentor) and Sensory Deprivation Floating, and sorta sweaty yoga classes (the doctor gave mixed signals about yoga, but f...

Yesterday, I was ordained a Reverend at the Universal Life Church so that I can be the officiant at Daniel’s wedding in the near future. It was a simple ceremony –– I simply clicked the tab on my computer that said “Ordain Me,” and it was done –– but a moving one. I previously became a ma...

So today –– after the unexpectedly MAJOR response to my email blast –– I decided to literally put my money where my mouth (or at least my newsletter) is and literally manifest its metaphor. Since I’d written about Stephen Covey’s Big Rocks, I did something I’ve thought about doing for a w...

Here was my newsletter today –- which has resulted in a ton of wonderful emails: EXACTLY WHY ARE YOU HERE? How many times have you gone out to run errands, returning home with bags of groceries, assorted household supplies, and maybe even some impulse purchases … but COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN the on...

Where you spend the beginning hours crafting out your newsletter –- now set to send between 1 and 4 am because that’s somehow when the Players in this world send theirs. And then a zillion hours working on your portfolio book for your art show –– scanning and photographing a million drawings + figuri...

Today began with a MAJOR synchronicity that was so uncanny that … I don’t think I can really reveal it here (yet). Morning spent pricing the art & drafting my email newsletter amongst other phone calls … until I realized that Belle really did deserve some swimming time since I was goi...

That’s when you know your 8 inch mini Trader Joe’s Pizza is done.  [And because it takes exactly 7 minutes or so to cook, you can add a slew of vegetables on the George Forman grill at 400 degrees for 7 minutes and it will act as your timer.] I admire that kind of simple direction:  when the ch...