Typo-writer Stories. (A video with me in it).

Click to see Typo Writer Stories video on YouTube LOUISE MARLER, my friend who’s a ‘typewriter artist’, is doing a series of video pieces about people who love their typewriters.  She drafted me as her first candidate.  She and her Director of Photography came to the house and tracked me as I talked, typed, and…

Missing a key.

I saw this image on Heidi R. Kling’s website … she’s an author & illustrator for young teens’ books and had to borrow it. I loved the missing key. Doesn’t it feel like some days, we’re just missing that one element? (I want to say, “How the “L” are you?” but I’ll resist.  They say…

Encouraging a list-maker.

When I was about nine, my father had a colleague named Marie Tashima who loved children but had never married or had her own. Daddy would drop me off at Marie Tashima’s house, and we’d have tea — she had a blue porcelain tea set from Japan — and she’d show me wonders of the…

S–t to do.

I’m a “To do” list maker. They never get shorter. Sometimes it feels like I don’t get very many items checked off. When Linda Schreyer gave me this “SHIT TO DO” notepad for my birthday, I cracked up. It’s the perfect item — I’m going to go online to see if I can find more!…

Tenement Museum box.

Darlene got me a birthday present months ago, when she was visiting The Tenement Museum in New York. She said she spied it in a dark corner of the gift shop and swept in to buy it. It’s made of keyboard keys — we think from a computer, perhaps, like a Nexus/Lexis kind of thing…

Containing costs at COSTCO.

Donna and I have had a great weekend together.   We went to a party with 40 of her friends last night. Today we had a last-minute brunch at the Beverly Glen Deli — a spot we like because we can ‘meet in the middle’, halfway between her place and mine… and then we topped…