I’ve been living at APPLE the last two days. I went in for a fried phone, but when I got there, APPLE geniuses figured out that someone named “Danny from Chicago” has been getting a ride on my Apple Care… and I’m not eligible for a replacement phone because he’s been living large on my…
I like gift cards. Sometimes I’ll slip them in a note to my father or my friends Gloria & Gloria. In this case, Gloria Z — also known as “Gloria #3”, because we also have Gloria Gordon and Gloria Shepard in the “Gloria universe” — has been working for me almost 20 years. She drives…
I love getting ‘thank you’ notes from Joseph Curtis, because they arrive on this bright red stationery — which amuses me because he’s a marine biologist getting his graduate degree in Florida right now. For Hanukkah I got him these plastic containers suitable for deep water dives. I found one suitable for slipping his phone…
http://www.people.com/article/ryan-gosling-eva-mendes-date-don-rickles Ryan Gosling & Eva Mendes were there. So was BOB SAGET, the first host of “AMERICA’S FUNNIEST VIDEOS”, who strolled in right in front of me as we filed into the Saban Theater last night. DON RICKLES was on stage, first time in 17 years. The locals all came out for him. BOB NEWHART….
I was on the phone yesterday with Kim from the Da Vinci Design School. We were talking about the importance of “soft social skills” for kids whose parents may not have taught them how important it is to reach out & network as a way to build one’s brand. I told Kim I believe…
Hopefully, we all have at least one teacher who made a difference in our lives. For me, it was Professor Page Stegner at UC Santa Cruz. I took an Independent Study from him about John Steinbeck — appropriate, since we were in Steinbeck’s old neighborhood and Cannery Row was just a thumb-ride away. I had…
Adam Silverman is a Renaissance man. Not only is he a world-acclaimed potter (with a RISD background) — he’s also a savvy businessman and a lover of paper, When we discovered that we both collect stationery from fancy hotels — I began sharing whatever treasure I retrieved with him. After a recent Christmas trip to…
This is the letter I got online today … and what prompted me to write Katie Stern, the Curator at an art gallery, a note expressing my regret. Dearest Friends and Collectors After a beautiful run of 3 1/2 years at Bergamot Station, we will be closing the Frostig Collection gallery on the 28th of…
I‘m finally clearing through stacks of papers I’d cleverly hidden in pea green Container Store boxes. During Christmas, I couldn’t keep up with the influx of papers/gifts/magazines & catalogues, so I coped by sticking them out of sight. The only problem? “Out of sight, out of mind.” * My Mom preferred doing anything over housekeeping. So…
Down below: Look at the pot, not the car… This image is called “Detail from a Vase, c. 1904″… Caladium design. Incised lines, underglaze painting with glossy glaze. Esther Huger Elliot, decorator; Joseph Meyer, potter. Newcomb College Collection. Tulane University. I loved the detail on this card — “Detail from a Vase” that I kept…
