That is one of my favorite lines from the episode of THE BIG VALLEY –– the first season finale –– where super-beautiful Audra (a pre-Dynasty Linda Evans) –– has to have her appendix removed on a train. I may or may not weave part of this into my newsletter this month, but I’ve always remembered watch...

Mary Zimmerman is really in a league all her own. METAMORPHASIS  was the play of hers that first really blew my mind –– and I’ve loved others since –– and today I saw WHITE SNAKE at Berkeley Rep and it was predictably astonishing. It had the two hallmarks of her work I love: Unbelievably imaginative ...

I segued back to work today –– more or less –– with 2 client calls and sending out my first 20 Xmas cards.   (If you’d like one, just let me know.) I also took plenty of time to rest and relax and part of that –– besides all my usual shows on Hulu –– included watching DOUBLE JEOPARDY starring Ashley ...

I love that this is the opening of all the The Phantom Comics from the late 1930s (the first superhero ones after Mandrake the Magician). So if you’re coming in late: This Sunday had my appendix yanked out. Home resting with Belle (while answering agent emails as we close our book deal). Tomorrow (pr...

Those are what the Kimochi (“a toy with feelings inside”) Octopus called Huggtopus has for feelings:  Happy, Silly, Frustrated.  And if you’re having trouble sharing your feelings, you can just indicate them with those little guys. And that’s what Val and her parents gave me when th...

I had a very productive day –– several client calls, lots of work for my January gallery show, ending with a dinner with Susan and John and Val and Clark and Jonah and his friend and Val’s parents –– but I have to admit that I’ve been meditating non-stop on all the life lessons from this week&#...

Email from a hater last night. So crazy … but fortunately SK(W) was around to advise (and then Adrian) and I realized that there’s just no way to respond to this kind of thing (really). Except to write all your responses with a sharpie … and then let it go. Completely. [And honestly, don&...

So says my friend, Daniel. And I did wake up at 5:30 am to teach.  I returned home and rested a bit before a client call and then a spontaneous trip to Cavallo Point to double-check the measurements of one of the spaces for my January through March show … And I learned that there was an odd space fre...

With Mercury in retrograde for another 2 days, not only did my wireless go out, the cable repair people ignored my directions and didn’t call and missed me (rescheduling for tomorrow am after I basically threatened genocide.) On the extremely positive side, my last night eblast had the biggest respon...