In some ways, I have a pretty thick skin but in other ways, I do not at all. The Universe keeps sharing its lessons whenever I send out a mass-mailing. Four mailings ago, when I merged several old mailing lists, I heard from someone who was quite wonderful, but who wanted to rehash a transaction from 1998....

So wise today that I decided to watch again THE LADY IN QUESTION … IS CHARLES BUSCH. He is a genius –- and there’s a hint of this in the trailer for the documentary: And it’s funny because with the novel/movie going out soon to the world, I’ve been asking myself “What&#...

Workout one today:  1/2 mile swim. Workout two:  Bikram (which nearly killed me). The other challenge (besides parking): I truly LOVE my scriptwriting program Final Draft Pro — seriously, I do –– but one weird quick has revealed itself. When I ran out of black ink, I thought ...

I don’t know why it should be so, but I have to say that after cutting another 20 pages out of the script in the last day, I feel vaguely and entirely beaten up. Seriously. We’re down from 174 to 154 pages (and really only one paragraph at the top of 154, but who’s counting). I feel that ...

Yesterday morning, I treated myself to finally visiting Taniya and Michael’s beautiful baby, Tara, prompted by Marie Carter, one of Belle’s very best friends arriving in San Francisco to do the same. Tara is a GREAT baby –– falling asleep in my arms and letting me hold her for over ...

It seems that the meanest person in the world is editing my screenplay. And for better or worse, that person is me. We’re at 260 pages (ha — my typo was “pounds”;  I really am on a juice-cleanse mindset) and we want to be at 120 by Monday, so we’re talking about reducing ...