LUCKY GIRL! November 27, 2008

I am the luckiest person I know.
Barring Vicky Morales, of course, who has everything one might wish for, and then some!
So let’s qualify that.  I am the luckiest person I know … who wasn’t born rich or beautiful.
I write this while looking outside my hotel room window with a breathtaking view of Sydney Harbor.  I always [...]

NONSENSE IN THE GARDEN November 24, 2008

So, we were eating arugula and a virtuous vegetarian pasta and sipping dalandan juice in a pretty garden.  But we sounded like we were on our third pitcher of frozen margaritas in some sleazy bar — shrieking while other diners looked at us askance.
“Oh my god, he was hoping for a threesome!” “What the f…?”  “Then she really is [...]

WHERE’S THE BEACH? November 17, 2008

Spur of the moment, I decided to escape to the beach for the weekend. One I’d read about but had never actually seen.  
Took a bus to the pier.  A rickety older one, the kind with baby roaches that creep out from under the plastic seatcovers when passengers are asleep.
                         
Then rode the slow boat – a sloshy, allegedly one [...]

MEMORIES OF SUNSETS PAST November 15, 2008

I was on a boat at sunset today, surrounded by islands and dirty, smelly water … 
And all of a sudden, I remembered Koh Tarutao.
It made my heart tug – like seeing a long, lost love in a dream.  

For a moment, I could feel the perfectly shaped, million year old rocks of Ao Son beneath my feet, the weight of tech [...]

SMALL TALK November 13, 2008

small talk.  never liked it.  never been good at it. 
but learned to put up with it.  because it’s how connections are made. 
not ours.
the first time we met, we felt compelled to tell each others’ life stories.  the second time was your dark night, yet we laughed in that truck under the stars.  the third time, I loved [...]

HAPPY CORNER November 11, 2008

This is my management team. 
I should be worried, right?
But believe it or not, these people are some of the most gifted television producers I have ever met … running what are factually the most awarded programs in the country. 

This shot was taken inside the boardroom half an hour before we made an important presentation. 
Sure, we have a high stress, toxic office.  Bad [...]

NCHMHM AND ME November 6, 2008

The term Harley Boy made him wince.  
So he started calling himself NCHMHM:
Non-Clingy High Mach Harley Man.  
We had nothing in common.  Obviously. 
But I loved talking with him anyway.  
I loved a surprising lot of things about the guy.
Maybe I shouldn’t have started to say so …
But I had to be true to myself too. 
And he, being his NCHMHM self …
Had to [...]

POSTCARD FOR MY WALKING FRIEND November 2, 2008

                         
Hey Walking Friend, look at my face.  See, I can’t smile without you.  Joke! 
You’re stuck in a sunless editing room on a Sunday … again?!  Awww.
I miss our Sunday walks. 
Even though I may be the only one who knows you exist in my life. 
This could, after all, be anybody’s foot.  Haha.  
                    
And I’m the imaginary friend in your world [...]