If you have empty DVD cases around and don’t know what to do with them — consider making them a “snap shut case” for “toting supplies for doodling on the go”. TIME MANAGEMENT TIP: You could even put a few cards in there that you need to write — and when you’re at the doctor’s…
Sometimes they just don’t get it right. This basket appeared — and it looked divine, bulging with John Kelley chocolates (my favorite, even better than See’s Bridge Mix!) — and varietal wines from the Santa Ynez valley. The only mystery was: Who was “Mimi Stewart”? I decided it had to be from “MIMI STARRETT” —…
Daniele had a card-making party this weekend, and Laura and I went out to play. When we got to the mid-century Modern house, we were both excited — it was the exact color Laura’s been searching for, and we’d just been talking about the kinds of houses we grew up in — and how mine…
Melissa Crandall sent me a story about a camp in Mendocino designed to help people detox from their devices. Typewriters are a featured part of the recovery, as the reporter discovered (this is her poem). I just have one question: where would I go to detox from typewriters? https://experiencelife.com/article/digital-detox/?et_cid=873951&et_rid=41089693&et_attr1= Please Share
I had lunch with my friends Denise Avchen and Ava Fries today on the rooftop of The Peninsula Hotel. We hadn’t seen each other in a while and wanted to catch up. I had a business call at 1:30PM, and retreated for twenty minutes. Ava and Denise were kind enough to wait — and we…
My friend Laura and I went to see Daniele at her new home in Pasadena today. Laura’s redecorating her own new house, so we were cruising along, looking for paint colors she liked. I was navigator. We cruised along, checking out the colors on Daniele’s street. We talked about what our dream houses looked like….
I met Lyn Winter when she was at the Museum of Contemporary Art… working with Jeffrey Deitch. She is a publicist who is herself an artist; an intellectual, beautiful, thoughtful person. I’m very impressed with her, as you might be able to tell. When Jeffrey went to New York — Lyn stayed here, where she’s the…
I was walking down Beverly Drive with Vin — I don’t remember what we were doing, but we had a few minutes to kill — when he noticed the store’s window. “Want go to in?” he asked. There was a gray jacket that looked kind of cute, so I agreed. When Laura P. came to…
Just because someone’s a grief counselor doesn’t make it any easier when they suffer their own loss. After I wrote a condolence card to someone I don’t know all that well, I was surprised — and touched — to get this card in return. I liked seeing the picture of her husband, since I’d…
Rhode Island School of Design’s interim President Somerson sent around a note to all Trustees about how admirably our administration, faculty and students handled the recent blizzard. I was so impressed by the volunteer efforts of BRANDON WANG, a RISD student, who took it upon himself to shovel the walks of stranded Providence residents…
