It’s weird that tomorrow my novel DOWNWARD DOG will suddenly be available on Amazon (and everywhere else).  (Note:  weird AND great.) But weird perhaps for no reason other than it feels like so much work has gone into launching the book … and yet I’m not sure exactly what has happened / i...

I am personally quite appreciative of this, but I’m not sure I would have advised it or done it myself. Mastin Kipp is a dude who’s on the rise and say what you will about him –– and I’m not going to say anything –– I love how he describes his gamechanger for The Daily Love. The Game Chan...

Belle’s incredible illness and miraculous recovery this week really did throw off my schedule –– I feel like I lost two full days –– but I was so thrilled that I managed to visit my forever friend Genevieve’s new restaurant that opened at the end of April. It’s Mulberry & Vine in Trib...

I’ve always loved that Einstein quote:   “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” But I want to offer my own riff on it: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though everything is easy.  Th...

When you’re writing something that’s MAJOR (whether it’s a book or a screenplay), there’s always that weird moment when you first start to share it with the world. I remember with my first produced feature film script, when during a meeting a producer told me how much she loved Fran...

Well, almost. I am –– I admit –– compulsively opening up iTunes, searching for “Vilga,” and checking the ratings and reviews of my novel DOWNWARD DOG (coming out June 11th). And I swear literally every time I am about to burst into “Living On A Prayer” by the genius Bon Jovi because...

And today, when we were totally unable to find a cab (at rush hour) (in the rain) (from the UWS) Belle took her first subway ride. She was, of course, perfection –– and she has flown across country 7 times in the last two years so in some ways it was No Big Deal. Still, it was her first introduction to sub...

I remember when we were shooting the 1st indie film I wrote and directed, Tony Winner John Glover said to me at one point (with agreement and irony), “My mother taught me that two things are important in life:  Winning Prizes and Being Popular.” More and more, I realize Mrs. Glover was probably...

I mean SERIOUSLY. I was thrown out of whack (aka ALIGNMENT, thank you Abraham-Hicks) yesterday with a well-meant but silly email which described in part that someone was Sooooooo (and I counted, there were literally SEVEN zeros in the word “so”) busy that she couldn’t do a 30 second task ...