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Today I finished an edit of a wonderful new fitness workbook (I’m being annoyingly coy because I’m not sure what the release strategy etc. is) but when my author friend asked about my application of the material … I could only reply that it would be to do my annual dropback photo shoot th...

Recently over lunch with a dear friend, she shared a brilliant re-definition of Surrender: CLICK to Surrender & Transform It’s been a VERY rough week and I’ll be honest:  SURRENDERING is definitely the lesson I most need to learn. And after teaching yoga for nearly 15 years — even th...

For years I taught at a major yoga center where we were encouraged / required to chant. In many ways, I loved doing this, although I have a complicated, uncertain relationship with Hindu dieties. (My dear friend Bryn, however, seems to be on an intimate, first-name bases with them.  Seriously –– it’s like ...

Read through and noted all my (multitude of) questions re: the book I’m editing. 3.5 hour meeting with the memoirist to gain insights. And then listened to my super-great, ultra-crackpot reading of my Human Design Chart reading (via MP3), which is actually 3 readings and about 5 hours long. And well ...

Having watched both MILK (the Oscar-winning movie starring Sean Penn) and THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (the Oscar-winning documentary) today back-to-back, I’m more than a little verklempt. Both films are just SO GOOD … particularly when you watch them together and see how astonishing the performanc...

(So begins a Harvey Milk speech from the 70s) Can I just say that it is so wonderful that one of my new client’s projects requires my re-watching MILK (along with various documentaries) in order to edit/consult on his memoir.  (ie, he was THERE.) & Can I just say that we live in an age of marvels...

In the corner of my bedroom, on permanent display, is the greatest thing I own:  this amazing picnic basket. I fell in a weird kind of love with it while Adrian and I were working on a project in Vancouver and he bought it for me for Christmas that year. It’s at once the epitome of both Downton Abbey...

Astonishingly lovely lunch today with my visiting friend from LA, the magical and gorgeous Karen Lorre at Bouley. It’s such a sensual ritual from the moment you walk in and smell the room lined with thousands of apples through the multiple amuse-bouches right through the gifted chocolate truffles at ...

Just got back from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore etc.) at the New York Public Library and the host –– who was both utterly charming and unbelievably insufferable –– felt compelled to read from Roland Barthes’ list of Likes and Dislikes. I’m too windblown –– my iPhone says it feel...