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...

At some point –- the details are irrelevant –– I stopped blogging daily after doing so for over a year and a half. And … I found that it was about a billion times harder to write once a week then it was to write every day. Once a week felt like everything had to be more MONUMENTAL. More “SIGNIF...

  Perhaps my all-time favorite inspirational quote  comes from Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Particularly since it sometimes feels like everyone successful was assigned a publicist at birth, crafting perfect sound bites about ...

The blog I was going to write today –- well, actually I did write it; I just decided not to publish it –– was, quite frankly, entirely reactionary. It’s not worth going into the details but basically while watching Saturday Night Live, I stumbled on something bizarre about myself on the interwebs, somethin...

Each and every time Belle lets go when we play Fetch, I am struck by how happy she is in the moment of release. There’s sheer joy that another round has begun, happiness that can only come from surrender.   It’s often said that all of yoga philosophy can be summarized as “Letting Go....

Although I’m currently working on a new book and associate producing a completed feature film, it may seem to casual readers that all I do is play Transformation (basically a board game best described as spiritualized Monopoly). Well,  last week I had my first go at Transformation since New Year’s Eve and ...

Those of you who’ve worn contacts will know exactly what I’m talking about. The rest of you will have to imagine it. After watching the Golden Globes at a tavern with friends, I returned home to work virtually with my web designer in Manila –– he is completely nocturnal so that dovetails perfectly with NYC...