Dr. John has a great song where he says, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative. When I was catching up with a long-time friend who I haven’t spoken with in years, he said he was working on himself and his relationship and he didn’t put any end goal on it – as in, it is all good, it was more like I’m just being honest with myself and those I love and we’ll see where…
I slept maybe two minutes last night in my hotel room at the Mark Hopkins – anguished because I had asked to meet an old friend and then I ditched him in minutes because I had lost all reserves of energy and had a wake up call at 3:45 am awaiting me. I also kept thinking of Tin’s eye procedure because he will have to have a local for 15 or 20 minutes while they…
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be…
Another day of trying to do too much – packing in a day of work, catching up with a few more people, a few in depth, a few just touching base. One of the things that is clear is that the last ten years of my life have been defining, and I mean this in a very positive way. The people I have met, the lessons I have learned, the ride has been tremendous. I…
Sandra Bullock just announced that she adopted a baby boy from New Orleans who she named Louie after Louie Armstrong. She was inspired by the song What a Wonderful World.
I remember in the early 90’s before the dot.com bubble took off and the depressed economy had finally caught up to San Francisco, a man who walked out of the Embarcadero Building and stood on the crowded corner of Market with everyone pouring out of the building, he stopped and put his hands to his face and began sobbing – sobbing so hard his body shook. I’ll never forget that image. It haunts me to…
I have limited time in San Francisco and have had to steal time here and there for me. In lieu of dinner, I ducked into the SF MOMA and saw a cool exhibit by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, highly recommend. There was also a photography exhibit on the 3rd floor that was worth seeing. Sony Metreon and saw Date Night, which started off a little disappointing but was saved by the actors in the middle,…
I met this man who runs a shop filled with exquisite wares from Kashmir. He has lived in San Francisco for 16 years and I told him I too had lived in San Francisco for 16 years. He said in a few years he would return home and so I asked him about home and told him how I long to travel to India but now that I have a young son, I might wait…
Caught up with another friend over a glass of champagne and some tasty tapas and we revisited a conversation we had had in depth a few years ago as we were on a road trip together. Nothing has changed. I told her about a comment T made the other day where she was referring to a friend’s husband and said, “They have problems because he works all the time.” Gadzooks. I likened my friend and…
Caught up with a friend for our once a year download of what is going on. She’s a year older than me so we’re both sort of going through similar milestones. She said Raquel Welch has written about menopause, calling it Men On Pause, as the libido just sort of dissolves into the ether after 50 (and dear readers this doesn’t mean 50 year olds don’t enjoy sex anymore, it means sex is not top…