… “the most sought after dessert on the table”…

We weren’t able to be at the Goldstein’s Passover Seder this year, but as always, I sent over CHOCOLATE TOFFEE MATZOH.  I got an unexpected ‘thank you’ from Jacqueline, who’s a well-mannered teenager… thanking me for my contribution to the dinner.  I liked her line, “Needless to say it was the most sought after dessert…

A painter who’s a people person.

p Marisa Murrow is a painter, a RISD graduate, and a go-getter.  She organized an event at the Haas Brothers studio — and I was delighted to attend, meet Simon and Nikolai, and mingle with other RISD-ites. Please Share

Half of the Haas Brothers.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323723104578185643073638664 I saw this article about the HAAS BROTHERS, brothers who are artists in the exalted field of high-end gold-plated furniture two years ago in The New York Times.  I sent it to folks at Rhode Island School of Design, where younger brother Simon had attended school.  Tonight we had an Alumni event there, and I…

News women.

Donna Guillaume had a party today for a group of us who worked together at Channel Two in the Newsroom years ago. My former boss, Nancy Jacoby, who’d been Manager of the Newsroom, was there.  So was Nan Tepper.  Patty Ecker, reporter who married   anchorman Joseph Benti.  Nina Zacuto.  Cecilia Alvear.  Margie Friedman.  We…

The tan may have faded…

http://www.emerson.edu/ela I’m going through my “letters to post” file — having done some Spring Cleaning — and found this delightful note from Jackie Liebergott, the former long-time President of Emerson College in Boston. She came out for the opening of the new Los Angeles campus. I encouraged her to get a fake tan — something…

Spaghettini & Route 66.

http://vincentingala.com/2013/ For years I’ve heard about “Spaghettini and the Dave Koz Lounge”.  It was a regular jazz offering on 94.7 THE WAVE, and I caught that wave quite often. When I noticed “Spaghettini” had opened up next door to SPAGO on Canon Drive — I was ecstatic. We booked brunch with our friends Lloyd &…

Camp Grounded.

http://digitaldetox.org/camp-grounded/ Tonight I heard and met LEVI FELIX, the co-founder and Camp Director of “CAMP GROUNDED”. He says we’re all addicted to our phones and computers, to social media. We need to unplug. He had us all take a selfie before the lecture began, post it to some form of social media, then turn off…