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My most intense sleeps seem to be when I stop working at 1 am, read for a bit, and then fall asleep by 2, only to have Belle decide 4:30 am is a great time for a walk.   I fall asleep very quickly into deep and vivid dreams for a few hours more. My phone calls got re-arranged a bit (a favorite organic dog ...

On this rainy day in SF, I slipped and fell on my way to renew my visitor’s parking permit, mere feet from my car.  I skinned my knee — no worse than that — but also have a clean tear across the pant there. I almost went home and changed, but then I realized that not only do people go out...

Saturday was a weird breakthrough day where I found myself sinking into a moodier and moodier abyss — despite a rather brilliant notion that the owner Jenny loved of teaching yoga across the street from where I’m living in the chic new boutique Acre after hours — until I made a decision j...

OK — that doesn’t exist — at least not yet, but Sally Hershberger is now charging $800 for a trim. [May I remind my faithful readers that I got the best haircut of my life for $5 at a local, non-descript Chinese place recommended by my friend Brian?] The reason I bring it up is because I&...

This season on 30 ROCK Jenna — while using leaches to reduce blood weight and tone under her eyes —  says memorably: “You’re nobody unless PETA loves you or hates you.” Well, PETA loves me and Belle — the President and Founder Ingrid Newkirk has enthusiastically endorsed...

It does make a difference that I not check in to email, voicemail and Facebook immediately every morning … and it’s still so damn difficult not to!  But I am weening myself of the addiction, morning by morning, breath by breath. There were many ups and downs today — lots of minor fru...

We just got Adrian’s tickets for San Francisco and I’m thrilled he’s going to be here in exactly 2 weeks.  I love that I now have so many delightful things in San Francisco that I cannot wait to show him. Susan will be teaching in Hawaii and I’m a little sad we won’t all ...

Since I’ve been immersed in self-discovery/self-improvement work in San Francisco — literally every single person I meet is a life-coach and a public speaker;  I’m not sure if other professions are actually legal — I’ve made so many immense breakthroughs and discoveries. But I...

Lately my spam count is off the hook for this blog, but all of them are attempted fake postings based on my “Sadly, Over the Hill” post about Colin Farrell.  I just don’t understand why that one post has somehow triggered endless obvious attempted spam comments.  Are spammers ob...