It’s cold here! I could feel it in the gap between the jetway and the plane, the blast of not quite frigid air that told me I was not in California anymore. What’s interesting about the new connected world is that you can live anywhere. Once upon a time, if you weren’t in L.A. or […]

The weather changed in a day. Tuesday I was adjusting the air conditioning. Wednesday I had to turn on the heat. I’m not sure I could live on the east coast again. There’s so much I miss, the intellectual curiosity, the camaraderie, but those gray days…after living in SoCal so long I don’t think I […]

1. We just want someone to listen to us. My mother broke her hip, she’s in rehab, she wants to get out, but imprisoned she needs someone to listen to her story, I’m providing that service. That’s what we all want. Someone we don’t have to be our best self with. Someone we can reveal […]

The number one complaint I get about Amanda Palmer’s success is her music sucks. I’ll tell you one thing, it’s not mainstream, it’s never going to be embraced by everybody, but Ms. Palmer has created a lucrative niche that others desire to inhabit, so they watch her TED talk believing they’ll learn how. But that’s […]