Keeping that in mind I tried to quell my excitement about seeing the work of master artisans: Van Cleef & Arpels, but something happened when those spotlights in the museum hit the jewels and they didn’t just glisten and glitter, they blazed and dazzled and drew me… Turns out I…
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An Aid to Concentration | Read, Seen, Heard. I want to highlight this fabulous gentleman (not the guy pictured above) and one of my favorite sites — visual puns, beauty, history — he’s got it all. Kihm Winship lives, works, walks and writes in Skaneateles, N.Y. An unfocused generalist, his…
Yeppers, I’m almost done with the edit — and my darlin’ is working on a big movie and is working six day weeks in town. So, on our one night, really truly together, all day, all night, Sunday, wonderful Sunday. Dinner and… *** *** Nope, this one! Yes, an evening…
Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.
The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…
If you sit hunched at your computer all the time you will turn into a quivering mass of protoplasm. Get up, stretch, take a walk… Now, get back to work.
Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…
You really shouldn’t write under the influence of cold medicine, but what the hey? Beguiling Hollywood’s New Year’s Missive
Hello sweetest babies, dearest darlings, friends beyond compare (yes, I’m in a flamboyant mood but humor me!) I could say I hope you all stay well-hydrated and virus-free but that might be too reflective of how I’m feeling at the moment… So – here’s something more appropriate instead: the real…