Its here! Only slightly delayed due to the death of my pug, but today I am announcing the contest I've been telling you about. Thanks to the nice people at All Modern, you have the chance to win this cool office accessory: It is the Fidato Memo Station with Mobile Phone and Pen Holder. Cool, […]
It is quiet in the house. No snorts or snoring from the family room, where Igor used to lie in his favorite chair. The first thing I did every morning was tiptoe in to see if he was awake, the last thing I did at night was kiss him goodnight. In his last days, he […]
It is August, the crickets sing at night, and my pug is dying. I want to honor him while he is still here, which will not be for long. My pug Igor, has been a constant companion the last ten years, even after turning blind, and lately, developing a limp in his rear leg. He […]
I'm a journal and notebook junkie.
I carry around a journal with me wherever I go, and over the years I've been through many a different kind of journal. But lately, I have discovered Moleskines, and I am in love.
Sitting in the garden at the Pasadena coffee shop called Zephyr, I whiled away a few good hours talking with my screenwriting friend Brian. We discussed the movie biz and the publishing world while a gentle breeze rustled the ivy covering the patio walls and handsome Armenians smoked hookahs at a table nearby. Russian literature […]
Having some difficulty creating full, true-to-life fictional characters? Why not let Marcel help you? Yes, that Marcel, the most famous one of all–Marcel Proust, author of Remembrance of Things Past, the only part of which I remember is when he waxed poetic about Madeleines, the shell-shaped, mini-cakes that melt in your mouth. Thanks to the […]
I'm a junkie for writing books. The good ones get me so excited about writing that I have a hard time finishing them because I put them down to go write (sort of like what I hope this blog does for people). And even the bad ones generally offer some tidbit or another. So when […]
My daughter is grown and gone, married now and thinking about having kids of her own (if the stupid army would ever let her husband come home). But sometimes often she comes to the house to do her laundry. Which is why, last week, I ended up down the basement folding a large load of […]
It rained yesterday. A lot. I drove home from a meeting on the freeway last night and waves of water splashed over the windshield, just like in winter. But I didn't mind. All day yesterday I waited for the rain to come in. It was hot and muggy in the morning, but there were hopeful […]
I have a love-hate relationship with the self-help industry. Mostly, I love it. Send me an email detailing the latest way to develop more insight and I'll click on your link any day. Show me an ad promoting some kind of "You Can Achieve More With Your Life" workshop and I'll read your long sales […]
