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Oddly. those were the names –- “Athena” and “America” of the dolphins I swam with today. Although I definitely wanted more “free time” with the dolphins, I have to say it really is pretty extraordinary to pet them and hug them and see how incredibly intelligent and inter...

Woke up at 4 a.m. –– a surprisingly good night of sleep considering that I dropped Belle off last night with Kate, her pre-guardian before Daniel and Lana (FYI, Kate is spectacular and her parents even raise labs as guide dogs so she is more than well qualified for a night of Belle-sitting) –– all to catch...

For a while when I was a pure night owl in NYC I would often watch Nikita on USA -– or somewhere –– at 2:30 in the morning. And my favorite thing about it was that the highest level operative Michael pretty much only said 2 things in each and every situation and somehow that was enough. I’ve had mome...

Second to the last night in the cottage. 2 more days on my regime before I leave for Cancun. Surprising last minute orders of DVDs I have to ready for Hong Kong and Seattle. Awesome interview w/major magazine today that will appear in tandem with book release –– must solve all download problems for bonus g...

So tonight I broke my 21 day juice fast with a cucumber. And I felt guilty. Guilty of eating. Of course it was necessary since it would be quite impractical to have continued while in Mexico, lugging a juicer and Vitamix into a different country. And it may also be unnecessary in general in that I’m ...

More like SMASHED! (sigh …) So I awoke yesterday to find that some crazy person had banged into my car between 12:30 am and 6:30 am in its parking spot. No note (of course). I did have the hope that this was one of those dents they could take a plunger (or whatever that tool is) and get out easily, b...

Yesterday it became quite clear that my hair just wasn’t quite working. This realization was all thanks to the bizarro overhead security cameras at J. Crew and H&M as I went with Belle to buy a few vital things I still needed for Mexico. [Basically, I felt I looked best in Bikram after the “...

I needed to swing by H&M today to get a few things for my Cancun trip –– like white t-shirts etc. –– and in the pile of things I bought, I realized the clerk had forgotten to remove one of the security dye tags they have to discourage shoplifters. The thing is that it’s an $9.95 t-shirt –– and my...

I’ve been packing on multiple levels today –– out of the cottage in San Francisco and into storage, for Cancun, for Mexico, and then back to San Francisco –– and suddenly it became beyond obvious that I needed some new luggage. I’ve been obsessed with the DASH products from the Brookstone since...