After a party, I try to get my notes out for the hostess gifts people brought as soon as I can. I usually keep the presents — whether they be tempting cookies, enticing bottles of wine or Champagne, or even pink & yellow almond-flavored soap — on my desk as an incentive to write something…
http://www.latimes.com/home/la-lh-louise-marler-typewriter-graphics-20131122,0,2049028.story#axzz2m76RFln9 Guess where I’m headed this morning? To meet LOUISE MARLER, reknowned TYPEWRITER ARTIST. She designs all things “Typewriter” — including stationery & art. As seen in yesterday’s LA TImes. (My friend Harvey was trying to get me to see THIS story, not the one about the “Gratitude Cafe”, I found out). If you get…
I promised to share my “tips” for writing notes. It occurs to me — first you have to get the “equipment”. Remember when you learned how to play tennis, and needed to buy the racket, the yellow balls, the gleaming Jack Purcells, and the folded-crease crisp white shorts? Same with writing a note. You…
Cate Ferrall (my 7-year-old pen pal from New York) wrote to tell me: (a) Thanks for putting her cards on the website. (I sent her Daddy the link so she could see her work in “lights”). (b) The Dora doll I gave her little sister Grace — that got “lost” at Grandma’s here in California…
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-vegan-thanksgiving-20131129,0,7317072.story#axzz2m76RFln9 My friend Harvey told me to check out an article in the “Extra” section of the Los Angeles Times today. Unfortunately, in my haste to prepare for a Hanukkah party I was giving tonight, I threw out the paper and it’s now nestled under bags of trash and wrapping paper. I think this must…
It’s a day that fills us with turkey as well as joy. We wait all year long to give ourselves the opportunity to be together and to feel grateful. I say, we should feel take stock of who’s been kind to us every day…. Once a year is a good start, but it’s not enough….
This reminder to “Give thanks” and weigh in about it (on a Presidential website) just came in from Michelle Obama, appropriately enough on Thanksgiving Eve. Mrs. Obama says the President and she are grateful for people like me who have been by their side. (I haven’t done much, really.) She wants us to…
I hear a lot of “Thank You” moments. Today when I was getting my nails done, Chau, my Vietnamese-born manicurist — who didn’t know my fervent belief in the power of “Thank You” — relayed a story about being out at McDonald’s with her 9-year-old daughter Lindsey. “After her piano lesson,” Chau said, “we went…
David Patterson, an energetic partner (and King of All Hospitality) at Mark Slicker Salon in Westwood, saw what I’ve been doing yesterday. I was there for hair color (base & blonde highlights), killing time by sharing my page. “I need ideas,” David said. “I’m grateful for a gift, in fact my heart may be bursting,…
“It would have been enough,” goes the Passover phrase “Dayenu”. Todd knocked it out of the park with his happily-wrapped bottle of Veuve Cliquot Champagne (Brut, my favorite) … his no-holds-barred story-telling in our dinner party conversation … and then flowers afterwards. I used a technique I learned at the Harvard Fundraising program I took…
