It’s my birthday!! I love my birthday. Celebrating another year of life gives me the opportunity to consider all the things for which I’m deeply grateful, to mark the beginning of my New Year, and to extend wishes to the Universe to send more peace, prosperity, adventure, love, good health, and friendship my way. Let’s celebrate together!…
DetailsI spent yesterday, Father’s Day, if not in the physical presence of my dear father, in his good company. All morning and into the afternoon I opened box after box of books — many of which were originally my father’s and which I have taken, or been given, from his library — carefully considering whether…
DetailsIn 1995, after enduring more than a dozen corrective foot surgeries starting when I was just seven months old, I was referred to and met with a young foot surgeon, newly in practice. He glanced at my sheaf of x-rays, holding them up against the light-box mounted on the wall, flipped through my thick file…
DetailsYesterday afternoon, one of my closest friends, Eric, called. He and his fiance, Rosemary, and her daughter, Lucy, were in Manhattan for just 36 hours, he said, and they wondered if I could meet them for dinner. So last night I took the F train from Brooklyn to the East Village to meet them at…
DetailsI’ve been coming to New York regularly since about 2005, when my studies in and pursuit of voiceover began in earnest. Things that seem normal to me are thought to be unusual here, like making eye contact, smiling at strangers, not rushing through conversation. I’ve been told that I have very good manners. That may…
DetailsAt 7 p.m. last night I was walking, again, to Guitar Center, on a mission to buy yet another cord — The Cord, I so hoped, that would finally solve all my problems and let me hear the beautiful nothingness of a clean room tone. It was getting late, the day had been totally wacky,…
DetailsYesterday was a long and discouraging day, trying to get my studio up and running. I urgently need to get back to work — well, I urgently needed to be back at work a few days ago — but I’m not recording yet. It’s never seamless to move a studio. Despite considering in the month…
DetailsThere are so many things I could have shared about my first week in New York — details of the new apartment, when we slept on an air mattress and there was nothing to sit on but the floor or overturned cardboard boxes; finding a great, cheap sushi restaurant, enjoying a sublime Columbian brunch of “divorced…
DetailsSunday morning. Almost everything I own is packed in boxes heaped in my small, open kitchen/living room. I’m sitting at the breakfast bar drinking a cup of coffee next to the big kitchen windows, which have been stripped of their curtains, making it easier to see the backyard of lush green bushes and grass, and…
DetailsI’ve had such an incredible amount of support over the last few days, that even though yes, I am overwhelmed, and yes, I failed in an important endeavor (getting a book done for someone who gave me an opportunity), and yes, I am exhausted, and yes, I am anxious, I am so very grateful that…
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