In today’s NEW YORK TIMES … 6-6-15 … MIKHAIL IOSSSEL, an author who left Leningrad in 1994, writes about how he used e-mail when he got here but still didn’t trust it… and why snail mail was better. We all take our ‘snail mail’ for granted… as well as our emails… but Mikhail reminds us…
I love my chiropractor. He’s a sports medicine doctor, really, more than a typical ‘pop the bones and make you crack’ guy. Craig Liebenson is highly known in his field, and people flock from all over the world to find him. His customer service is as top-notch as his diagnoses. I referred my daughter there…
I got to sit next to Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz of The Talking Heads last Saturday. It was the Rhode Island School of Design Commencement, and Jerry, Tina & Chris were being given Honorary Doctorate degrees. We watched the array of creative students cross the stage, listened to a stirring & offbeat…
I taught a class of Women in Film a few months back — my writing teacher Linda Schreyer asked me to come and share my approach… and Gail E. Moss was one of the students, She ‘got it’ immediately, and we’ve established a very nice penpal type of relationship. When she invited me to her…
https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/Matilda/ * “MATHILDA” is a strange. colorful, oddball story about to officially debut at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson. Charity Wu, the lovely CTG Development person, shared a glass of Pinot with us as Donna Guillaume and I ate dinner before the show. She was meeting two other ladies, she said, and half-way through our drink, the ladies…
My cousin Lauren knows how to write a GREAT note. Basically, they sound like she just talked to me — and they capture her personality perfectly. Vivi turned 2 and I got her color-blocked sandals (pink & orange), and some plastic pink chairs, just her size. I knew they’d both be a hit — and…
I got to see Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett perform together tonight at The Hollywood Bowl. We were seated next to a woman who told us she’s the agent for both Tony AND Lady Gaga … and she had brought her Aunt for the concert. I thought it was so cool that she’d do such…
Phil and Ellen Siegelman are my father’s best friends. We used to go on family vacations with them — and our other family friends, the Houles — way back when we were little. Phil’s an excellent cook and he would whistle as he washed the dishes afterwards. For my father’s 92nd birthday, we flew up…
I play a game with myself. Whenever I see a great artist — I check to see where they went to school. If it’s Rhode Island School of Design, I’m gratified. Often I’ll write that person a note — if I can figure out where to send it — and thank them for the fine…
