This morning our experience at the Municipal Parking Authority can truly only be described as a TRIUMPH. This is largely because Belle and I were braced for hours in line of waiting.  It  turned out to be 10 minutes, with a brief intermission since because of zoning subtleties we had to regroup and return ...

Nothing is more daunting than Secret Santa, especially if you don’t know your drawn-from-a-hat giftee at all. We’re doing that tonight at the Laughing Lotus Holiday Party, but I am thrilled to report that I not only have a rather sensational gift to give, I also experienced a personal triumph I...

Today, I found myself WAITING for either of my private client’s two secretaries to call me back about a lesson, but decided to take the leap of faith and just charge out to Oakland for lunch with Amy Ahlers. Amy has become a real friend this fall, which is remarkable given that her book launch happen...

          Last night after the hardest parking challenge of my life –– what seemed like thousands of drunken Santa wandering through North Beach –– I watched the first 2 hours of the 2 part Woody Allen documentary from American Masters which I loved.  So eager to watch the second p...

What’s that William Blake line again: What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? (I guess things rhymed differently back then). Nonetheless, today brought such amazing “fearful symmetry” (well, more like impressive/fearful) that again, I marvel at the Universe’s sens...

Well, not really. Just my email. All of my correspondence, in fact, from the last two years is downloading AGAIN on my computer. I don’t know why, but I currently have 18,000 unread emails. Perhaps I scoffed at Mercury Retrograde one too many times, but this is the final touch today. I woke to get an...

Took Steven’s class at the Lotus yesterday — which I loved — and felt again post him and Jeremi on Friday morning, that connection to “I wish I could do that.” Most of the fancy, party trick poses that I lusted after are now in my repertoire, although if we’re being tota...

Remember that moment in NOTTING HILL where Julia Roberts says: “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Oh, how movie star Julia Roberts yearns for simplicity in such a heart-breaking way. I feel similarly every time I try to take a yoga class: “I’...

Fantastic Thanksgiving yesterday. First a beach walk with Susan and Belle in the misty rain and fog.  I have never seen the tide as high.  I’m not good with distance in the abstract, but I’d say that 2/3 of the beach had vanished, leaving tons of odd, root beer-like foam on the shore. Returning...