So many projects today. I’ve never stretched any of my canvases before –– I just sent them to my amazing, top secret Chinatown place –– but now that I have four poster-sized ones to stretch for January 3rd, it’s time I learned (the 2 much larger ones I’m thrilled to say are being hung by ...

Is Die Hard. Yuletide spirit + Family values + defeating the sorta terrorists. Adrian and I watched it –– he’d never seen it before –– while I cooked 2 Cornish Game Hens, after a morning with Susan and John and the Tates and a visit to Grace Cathedral. And now … Exhausted even though it’s...

The world feels pretty sleep on this day before Christmas Eve, although Belle and I have been working away. We started with a morning yoga client (at 9:30 –- Thank God –– not 6 am), walking there together in the rain. Later in the day, however, the little dog started limping as we exited my car for a trip ...

After Belle and my beach walk this morning I picked up the photo transfer of the canvas I’m going to paint for my January Cavallo show. And let’s just say I was thrilled. It’s a little over six feet wide and when I sent the image to the lab, the guy kept discouraging me about the resoluti...

My juicer is astonishing.  I honestly can’t imagine life without it. It makes such incredibly delicious, healthy drinks and lets you feel virtuous (aka smug) at the same time. Early morning client, followed by magazine interview, then 8:30 am nap. And –– in honor of 12/21 –R...

There’s going to be no stopping my relationship with green juice. My juicer arrived this morning and it’s amazing.  So easy to use and simple. I have dim memories of using a friend’s juicer 15 years ago and it was IMPOSSIBLE to clean.  It literally felt like it took 30 minutes to wash it....

So this morning I went to my UPS mailbox to get something sent registered mail. And immediately after leaving, I got an email saying that I had a package.  [Later that day I got two more such emails and that, I think, accounts for everything I’m expecting in the post.] Anyway, even though the recover...

Which was apparently the name of my waitress tonight at Don Pistos for a midnight nightcap and hamburgeza with Belle. Although we were safe and snug, I felt compelled to go out after one too many (how much is too many) encounters with mean and/or people who just don’t “get it” –– “i...

Today it suddenly became overwhelmingly necessary that I organize my toiletries better and so a trip to Ikea was called for. I met John there and –– even though somehow it was weirdly complicated to get the cabinet not off the floor or in the large item section, but that I had to get an employee to do the ...