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Somehow it came at an inconvenient time -– and I thought it might be too intense for any mood I was in –– but I avoided SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE when it came out, saving it for the right moment. And that was tonight … and it was GENIUS. And it felt like the story of my life. UNBELIEVABLY...

Those are what the Kimochi (“a toy with feelings inside”) Octopus called Huggtopus has for feelings:  Happy, Silly, Frustrated.  And if you’re having trouble sharing your feelings, you can just indicate them with those little guys. And that’s what Val and her parents gave me when th...

When you’re feeling a sick day (something that happens to me every three years) and your stomach is upset, and you’re drinking tons of herbal tea and bitters and other potions … I strongly advise you not to leave a cup near your stack of unwritten Xmas cards. Strongly. Fortunately, it tur...

I had a very productive day –– several client calls, lots of work for my January gallery show, ending with a dinner with Susan and John and Val and Clark and Jonah and his friend and Val’s parents –– but I have to admit that I’ve been meditating non-stop on all the life lessons from this week&#...

After last night’s Hate (e)mail: 1.   MAJOR breakthroughs –– and I’m not kidding, I feel utterly transformed. 2.  I need a night/day off.  

Email from a hater last night. So crazy … but fortunately SK(W) was around to advise (and then Adrian) and I realized that there’s just no way to respond to this kind of thing (really). Except to write all your responses with a sharpie … and then let it go. Completely. [And honestly, don&...

So says my friend, Daniel. And I did wake up at 5:30 am to teach.  I returned home and rested a bit before a client call and then a spontaneous trip to Cavallo Point to double-check the measurements of one of the spaces for my January through March show … And I learned that there was an odd space fre...

Literally counting down the seconds until 3:47 PST today when Mercury went direct. I don’t like to get too invested in all this astrology S&*T but … when your 2 month old modem needs to be replaced and the cable company can’t find you and you buy tickets to a screening that vanishes, ...

With Mercury in retrograde for another 2 days, not only did my wireless go out, the cable repair people ignored my directions and didn’t call and missed me (rescheduling for tomorrow am after I basically threatened genocide.) On the extremely positive side, my last night eblast had the biggest respon...