Jamie’s roommate from Rhode Island School of Design — Alison Schwartz — has a background in Sculpture… and managed to brilliantly morph that talent into industrial design. She works for Donald J. Pliner Shoes now — my favorite brand! — and I always send her interesting shoes when I see them… as inspiration. Since…
I’m not a car person really. Vin is the guy who loves his cars. Me, I just like something that starts every morning. That’s reliable. And has good air conditioning. I considered all cars pretty much the same. Until my Mini. (Vin and I are supposed to share it, but so far I’ve allotted more…
Caesar, the nurse in Dr. Assil’s Eye Institute, stood above me, poised with a bottle of eye drops. “We’re just going to anesthetize your eyes,” he said, as I looked around the darkened room, desperate for an exit. “I’d rather have a baby without an epidural than have an eye exam,” I glared. “Wow, never…
Kevin Bright is a brilliant Executive Producer who oversaw “FRIENDS” — the phenomenon show that broke out so many stars. He’s now Founding Director for Emerson College in Los Angeles. He may have a GOOGLE ALERT to catch any & all references to the shows he produced during his storied career. In case he hasn’t…
I’m always on the lookout for pictures of ‘brogues’, aka ‘shoes that tie’, and now I found there’s a new term for them: “Creepers”. Pat White, an Honorary Trustee for the Rhode Island School of Design, and I share our admiration of ‘brogues’, so I always try to send her appropriate pictures of new ones…
Chuck Larsen is a world traveler. He and his wife Shelby readily admit they’re running out of countries to go see. Their latest adventure was in Mongolia. Chuck, a skilled photographer, is wonderful about getting shots of typewriters from all over the world for me. This one he found in ULAAN BAATOR, MONGOLIA. He says,…
Cate Ferrall, my 8-year old penpal, is an expert puzzle-maker. She sent me one a few days ago — which was a son-of-a-gun to put together. Vin and I both worked on it every time we passed by it on the front hall table. But there seems to be a problem. I wrote Cate this…
Jim Higley is the new Development Director for Camp Kesem. He and outgoing Development Director, Laura Probst, came to introduce Jim to me — since I’ve been involved peripherally with the Camp Kesem folks since the very beginning. We had a deep, instant connection — about losing family members to cancer… how to deal with…
On Saturday there’s going to be Reunion of many of the powerful women who worked at CBS/KNXT (the local station, now called ‘Channel 2″) — in the Newsroom. NAN TEPPER was our spiritual guide. Mentor. Teacher. And friend. It’s a tribute to Nan that 40 years later, we’re still all in love with her. A…
Chuck and Shelby Larsen have season box seats to the Hollywood Bowl. They have it down. We have a checklist of ‘who brings what’. We have the ride part all figured out. And now Chuck added a new element — he built an ‘insert’ piece between the two tables in the box, to fill in…
