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What color is your soul?

After living in white walled apartments and houses, I’ve been messing around with colored walls for the LaLa and right now the room that is holding my fascination is the back guest bedroom where P is going to do a color wash of two different color reds with a luminous undercoat. I had M paint the ceiling yellow in an eggshell finish which gives it a little shine. It is possibly the darkest room in…

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Louisiana 2005

When that song Louisiana 1927 was written, it was harkening back to a time when the city of New Orleans almost washed away in a storm – flash forward 100 years later and what will be the songs that capture 2005 when yet another storm almost washed her away. Today it rained like it was 1927 or 2005 – a hard pummelling rain that flooded the streets and left everything not refreshed, but drenched, water…

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YAHOO!

The stock is up 5% in after hour trading because Panama went live today – but they did lower guidance for 4Q, something a client told me might happen because they couldn’t meet their full year numbers. I’ll take 5% rather than a poke in the eye with a red hot poker. I reached the height of multitasking today and thought I wasn’t going to break through to the other side when O, my co-pilot,…

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Pursuing your dreams against all odds

My stylist in San Francisco recently opened his own salon called Chateau 1508 – it’s a gorgeous small jewel box of a salon overlooking Union Square. Not only is he a great stylist but he also paints and he sent me this news today: Im having a major shift in my art world…..I just sold a very precious piece for 5k yesterday and a big sale the week before. A collector bought this piece, she…

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Running in the Dark

Today was Monday in every sense of the word – overcast and rainy this morning so coudn’t walk the Bean. Many false starts to a day that was supposed to be about checking off “to do” items with work. A sleight of hand yet again by the barrista who gave me caf instead of decaf, which had the effect of making me circle the outer limits of the galaxy. At the LaLa, K slipped and…

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