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...

Yesterday, I was ordained a Reverend at the Universal Life Church so that I can be the officiant at Daniel’s wedding in the near future. It was a simple ceremony –– I simply clicked the tab on my computer that said “Ordain Me,” and it was done –– but a moving one. I previously became a ma...

Here was my newsletter today –- which has resulted in a ton of wonderful emails: EXACTLY WHY ARE YOU HERE? How many times have you gone out to run errands, returning home with bags of groceries, assorted household supplies, and maybe even some impulse purchases … but COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN the on...

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...

Woke up snug under my covers but realized that the pilot light had gone out in the ancient (25 years?) heater in the cottage. It was nearly impossible to figure out how to relight the heater, so I figured I might be slightly chilly until Monday when the top ranked on Yelp heating company returned to the of...