Linda Schreyer, my writing teacher, spent five years writing & re-writing “TEARS AND TEQUILA” until it was just right. Now she’s on the book signing tour, where audiences hungrily hang on every word. This cartoon from The New Yorker made me laugh — and I’m sending it to her as my way of saying, “I…
“He was supportive from a distance and it was quite romantic in a way.” “For Brangelina, an emoji-filled text just won’t do.” When they were 10,0o0 miles apart, they kept in touch ‘the old-fashioned way’ with love letters. “It was quite romantic,” Jolie, 39 — who directed the World War II drama Unbroken Down Under while…
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I was pregnant with Jamie when I worked with Stephen Brown. It was a show called “FUN HOUSE”, and he produced segments and I was the Associate Producer. (J.D. Roth was our host — he now Executive Produces “The Biggest Loser”). It was a Nickelodeon “glop” show, replete with kids doing races around an inside…
Guys — If it’s just too much to have to write your girlfriend/wife/lover a text as much as she wants one — now there’s an app for that. “BroApp” — $1.99 – will send automated texts for you. Pick your messages. Pick the days and times. The app does the rest. * Don’t tell her…
What did we do before Scotch tape? Invented in 1925, people quickly discovered its myriad uses. “By the early 1940’s, Scotch tape was being cited in the pages of The New York Times as a method of splinting pigeon wings, preparing windows for air raids, resealing envelopes opened by the government censors, cropping photo negatives,…
My friend Louise A. Marler is a typewriter artist… whose worl I have hanging in my ‘Thank You Room”. (It’s where I type most of my notes). She’s been commissioned by Steve Soboroff, a well-known typewriter collector, to create a limited-edition series of prints. My friend Chuck Larsen — who lives in Pacific Palisades &…
From a book I bought, “HOW TO DELIVER A TED TALK: Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations.” by Jeremey Donovan. Brene Brown, professor at the University of Houston College of Social Work, had a powerful conclusion for her TED talk. “This is what I have found: to let ourselves be seen, deeply seden, vulnerably…
Jack Dorsey is the genius who created Square (for credit cards that can be charged through your Iphone) and Twitter. Now he’s sharing his vision for receipts. “Receipts should allow (customers) to connect better to the merchants they had this experience with.” They can be used for sellers to start a conversation. “Whether via a…
