It’s New Years Eve.  So much has been said about this decade that for lack of a better name is being called the post 9/11 decade. Remember Seattle’s public Millennium Celebrations that got cancelled because of a terrorist plot.  Remember the sight gag on late night TV, Seattle’s New Year’s Celebration as a few guys [...]

I have so much faith in Obama that I think the whole Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest fiasco will be cleared up when the police officer, the professor and the President of the United States have a beer together at the White House.  There is no such hope for Shem Walker, a man I never [...]

I felt so good, stretched out, open and exercised after two days in the studio with Dody DiSanto who taught a Neutral Mask Intensive here in New York this weekend.  An inspirational teacher, she is considered by many to be the best neutral mask teacher in America.  It was a class filled with two dozen [...]

From the Wikipedia entry on the topic of “Recession” and where I was at the time: According to economists,[39] since 1854, the U.S.A. has encountered 32 cycles of expansions and contractions, with an average of 17 months of contraction and 38 months of expansion. However, since 1980 there have been only eight periods of negative [...]

I am so happy, so relieved, so hopeful. I cried. I have never felt this way about a president. One of our own. Much is being made of the color of his skin and that is an inspiring first. But this is a president of my generation. Someone who was a child in the 1970′s [...]

   Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you [...]

Dear classmates – > > As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on > Sarah Palin, Senator McCain’s choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I > know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that > he picked her. > > The most [...]

I hope that means we have a good marriage, that I am already sad, and The Husband hasn’t even made it to the airport yet. Listening to NPR, conversation about an intriguing novel; “The Sorrows of an American”, tempted to buy it in hardcover. Walking my Seattle friend to the subway after a lovely brunch [...]

My kid brought home a test today 20/24, 84%.  Can I just say my kid is 7.  Can I just say she only missed 4 questions.   OK.  Next year, third grade is a big deal test in New York City. We are supposed to go over with our child the questions that they missed. [...]