I’ve certainly been helped by generous investors before and so I really love the spirit of Kiva –– particularly that seemingly negligible amounts can do universes of good. Semi-accidentally, I’ve loaned to two or three entrepreneurs in the beauty business –– in Colombia and Lebanon –- and as on...

Today, as is often the case, my most overworked yoga client canceled after I got there –– which means I was basically paid $150 for an hour walk (30 minutes in each direction), which I supposed isn’t bad. It’s my own version of a Fran Leibowitz line.  Basically, I could live really well on NOT-...

Since I posted exactly one thing on my facebook fanpage this week (the first time in months) –– versus my regular page –– and I had 3 new likes, I’m doing +4,437.5% better (according to facebook).  [And obviously, I need to start ramping up the fanpage with the novel et al coming out this year.] But ...

And I mean that not just as a reference to the trashy/awesome sci-fi movie of last year or so. Today I had a weird food reaction –– I think I swallowed wrong, but horribly wrong –– and for about 10 minutes thought I might just die.  (I’m being semi-serious). And so during my daily pilgrimage to Trade...

So the hardest thing about my appendectomy is that I haven’t been able to do 2.5 of my favorite de-stressing activities.  Spa Hot and Cold Plunges (as per Naomi Campbell, my beauty mentor) and Sensory Deprivation Floating, and sorta sweaty yoga classes (the doctor gave mixed signals about yoga, but f...

So today –– after the unexpectedly MAJOR response to my email blast –– I decided to literally put my money where my mouth (or at least my newsletter) is and literally manifest its metaphor. Since I’d written about Stephen Covey’s Big Rocks, I did something I’ve thought about doing for a w...

Where you spend the beginning hours crafting out your newsletter –- now set to send between 1 and 4 am because that’s somehow when the Players in this world send theirs. And then a zillion hours working on your portfolio book for your art show –– scanning and photographing a million drawings + figuri...

That’s when you know your 8 inch mini Trader Joe’s Pizza is done.  [And because it takes exactly 7 minutes or so to cook, you can add a slew of vegetables on the George Forman grill at 400 degrees for 7 minutes and it will act as your timer.] I admire that kind of simple direction:  when the ch...

It was high time for another beach walk with Belle (it’s been a little chilly) and so this morning we went together. A deep, deep nap followed by 2 Sunday client calls and a walk to Trader Joe’s. And now –– as is appropriate for the start of the New Year –– major house/paperwork cleaning on a S...