The Tree Trimmers came by to finish up today and it was … quite something. First, I woke up and was not quite in alignment –– I couldn’t even get through my usual Abraham Hicks meditation –– but not terrible either.  It’s just that it was 8am and there were people all around me chopping d...

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-...

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...

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...

So the rest of the world is entirely on vacation, however, for us … Woke and began conferencing with my web guy about some site restructuring. Then I realized my 1 pm client call was really at 10 am. Finished just in time to head to the Apple Store where I was relieved to learn my problem with Itunes...

So many projects today. I’ve never stretched any of my canvases before –– I just sent them to my amazing, top secret Chinatown place –– but now that I have four poster-sized ones to stretch for January 3rd, it’s time I learned (the 2 much larger ones I’m thrilled to say are being hung by ...

Is Die Hard. Yuletide spirit + Family values + defeating the sorta terrorists. Adrian and I watched it –– he’d never seen it before –– while I cooked 2 Cornish Game Hens, after a morning with Susan and John and the Tates and a visit to Grace Cathedral. And now … Exhausted even though it’s...

The world feels pretty sleep on this day before Christmas Eve, although Belle and I have been working away. We started with a morning yoga client (at 9:30 –- Thank God –– not 6 am), walking there together in the rain. Later in the day, however, the little dog started limping as we exited my car for a trip ...