Here was Belle’s day today. Waking at 6 and allowing me to putter with things like meditation/alignment. Beach walk at 7:30 where she passionately swam and chased sticks in the ocean for 45 minutes. Supervising a photoshoot I volunteered to do for my friend Rhiannon.   [At one point, when the sun was...

Today I re-read a favorite novel from my childhood, HALF MAGIC by Edward Eager (I had totally forgotten his name, but now I totally love it.) I didn’t remember much about HALF MAGIC except its premise –– children find a magical coin that grants all their wishes, except only by half. What I loved abou...

This morning began with a little exercise from everyone’s favorite alien Bashar of “acting out” –– more than just visualization, really carrying out things out, almost in a play-acting way (like a kid pretending to be a rock star singing into a hairbrush.)  I won’t ...

Having finished the entire Dave Ramsey CD course, I guess I am now officially a graduate of both his Financial Peace University and David Neagle’s Miracle of Money course. Ramsey’s step one and three are about creating your Emergency Fund. And I will say this … For all my crackpot friends...

Today Susan, Belle and I visited Cavallo Point and were joined by Elissa.  It was amazing to see the space again since my visit 3 weeks ago with Adrian, knowing that in January through March 2013 I’ll be having a show there. Leigh, the curator was AMAZING –– so BEYOND and great and I...

Sometimes the Universe gives you signs. But it’s particularly interesting when the signs are on, well, signs… This sticker was 100% there yesterday on the parking restrictions sign directly outside our door and now it’s gone. Seriously –– someone, government-paid or not, has removed it. B...

Belle loves her friend Brian at Acre-SF … and Brian loves Belle. And we love all of them and everything about Acre. Take a look at the Acre Blog for this week:  CLICK HERE. I love what Brian wrote about looking forward to seeing Belle every morning when we get our coffee.  And it’s all true ...

One of my all time favorite stories comes from Stella Adler –– I conducted her last interview for my book, ACTING NOW –– although I think I heard it first in a documentary I assisted with for AMERICAN MASTERS. When Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, the great American theater director...

Two online marketing seminars (one ridiculously inept and the other amazingly helpful and generous). One client lesson. Lunch at the Art Institute with Susan and Belle. Two great conversations with Andrea Lake. Revamped the mailing list with a major import of contacts, increasing it by 30%. Redesigned my n...