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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Southern California Wildfire Victims Save Family Portraits…
My heart and prayers go out to all of you who are affected by these devastating fires. I sincerely hope you are out of harm’s way, that you & your family and loved ones are safe and secure, and that your lives are not directly affected by these catastrophic fires.
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Captain Kangaroo? Lee Marvin? Mr. Rogers???
A friend sent this… Forgive the few typos — it’s worth a read till the end.
I actually met Lee Marvin while he was filming “Route 66″ in Pittsburgh. As a matter of fact, I was on the set and there was a fight scene between him and George Maharis and George took a punch and broke Lee Marvin’s nose.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Two Women Talking In Heaven…
1st Woman: Hi! My name is Maggie.
2nd Woman: Hi! I’m Sylvia. How’d you die?
1st Woman: I froze to death.
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Trust A Friend
A man leaves home to go fight in the Crusades and decides that his wife should wear a chastity belt in his absence. So he locks her up and gives the key to his best friend.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Heartbreaking…
Do something today for someone that matters. Make a difference in a child’s life.
Love them, cherish them, make them smile…
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all.
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
MOCA
The girls and I had some time today so we headed over to MOCA in Los Angeles. I hadn’t been there in way too long, and had forgotten what an awesome place this is. We crawled into one exhibit and hung out on the floor and talked, with q-tips and blue super balls hovering around us in various sculpted shapes. The carved lipstick exhibit was another awesome find in the Poetics of the Handmade, as was the exhibit crafted out of Mexican paper money. The skateboards and surfboard were very cool, and the reliefs made out of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil were awesome.
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
When you want to get serious about relaxing…
You really owe it to yourself and your significant other to visit the Collingwood Inn in Ferndale, CA. The food is exquisitely prepared, the owners Chris and Peter do an outstanding job of creating a friendly and relaxed stay… It’s one of the best places I’ve ever stayed, and I travel a lot. Looking forward to many return trips. 
I’ll be writing more about WHY I think the Collingwood is such a gem, but in the meantime, visit their website at www.collingwoodinn.com
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Just dessert
“What a difference a day makes…” It’s a cliche, but true. I think about my own children and how astonishing it was to see them grow as babies. Even now, they’re 13 and 8, and not a day passes when they do something that just blows my mind. That generally is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it just makes me laugh and shake my head. My younger daughter has this habit lately of wiping her hands on her shirt. So there we were yesterday at a restaurant, she finishes her cupcake, and before I could say anything, wipes her frosting-covered fingers across the front of her shirt… For the rest of the afternoon until we could get home, she had finger tracks…
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Wait a minute… make that a few hours..
I’m writing this while waiting for a plane at Denver International. It’s become almost a cliche with airline delays again… For the past few years, I’ve been really lucky with flights and getting through airports fairly quickly, even with the gear I usually carry. But not tonight. Weather outside of Chicago made the plane late to Denver, which is the aircraft I need to get to L.A. So here I sit, waiting for a guy I don’t know to get the plane here and get me home. A lot of life is waiting — waiting in line at the bank, waiting for a train to pass, waiting for the rain, waiting for the right time to ask the question… let’s make the most of those moments of waiting. Talk to the people around you, or at least observe and enjoy them. I’m upstairs at DIA in a computer station and an Asian dude in a bad suit is to my left pounding on his laptop to some tunes I can hear through his ear buds. The guy on my right has Bose-style headphones on and is having a VOIP conversation wtih someone, half of which (his half) I am hearing at full volume. This is broken by sporadic announcements from an over-annunciating airport service rep for various customers… Kids scream and leap in a nearby kids play thing, their dad standing with a comatose glazed stare… I talked to a woman earlier who had been at the airport since the previous DAY. Ideally, I’d like to be on my way home. But things could be worse, and it’s not a bad way to spend a couple hours. If I end up staying here till tomorrow, I’ll probably have a totally different opinion…. LOL