After our glorious five days off visiting the Taj Mahal and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, it was back to work – bam, bam, bam – three...

The Dalai Lama lives in Dharamshala, a little town in Northern India just east of the foothills of the Himalayas. It’s a Tibetan village,...

Okay we didn’t really party in the Punjab per sé, but I did get pretty drunk after the seminar because it was hands down the most...

Dr. Ava and I are back on the road, this time for seminars coming up in India. We land in New Delhi in about five hours, but for the last...

Art & Inspiration In NYC Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin Springtime in New York is magical. And this trip was particularly so, meeting my...

Violet believes in the Easter Bunny. Not in the ironic wink-wink roll-your-eyes but eat the chocolate anyway kind of way, but really and...

I kid you not, this is the best lemonade I’ve ever had. Richard and Violet have been perfecting the recipe over the last few weeks and...

I had a hell of a day. This morning when I woke up, my primary concern was what am I going to wear on Kendra’s show today? Appearing on...

Our local post office has a drive-by mailbox. Violet gets so excited when we stop to mail a letter and demands to be the one who actually...

Violet was helping me make dinner the other night, and, as usual, was chatting away about her day at school and what the other kids were...

I checked into the hospital emergency room last night with heart palpitations. I’ve had them my whole life, but usually they only last a...

The first time Richard and I went to a Chuck E. Cheese with Violet, we vowed that we would never be back. But then one of her classmates...

Lately I’ve been looking for recipes that use a lot of lemons. This is why: Of course it’s a blessing from the gods of edible gardens to...

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. So true. But comedy is something that can be learned, apparently. While we were in Miami on vacation...

Christmas just isn’t the same without cookies. I have so many warm, wonderful memories of baking cookies at Christmas – whether it was my...

The other night Richard and I went out with our friends Christian and Melissa who always seem to have the best tickets for everything....

The devastation on the other side of the country didn’t hit me until I got the final confirmation from the last person I needed to hear...

Sometimes I think those polenta tubes in the supermarket are a disgrace. It’s like cheating. How hard is it to boil cornmeal for a few...

Remember this record? I remember listening to it in the 70’s as a little kid and loving it! I hadn’t thought about it for decades until...

While I was in Jamaica a few weeks ago, I took a little side trip on a boat to Bubukie Island where a group of us were treated to grilled...