I have been swamped with work, so this cookie’s from the archives.
About two weeks ago, a Little Boy in the neighborhood, a kid who will run into oncoming traffic just to say hi to me and pet the dog, asked if I was going to be in the local Hallloween parade. When I told him [...]

Despite being deeply distracted by the Presidential Election - I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that in less than a week we’re going to have a new President (President-Elect, actually) -  I have been doing some real work.
I just completed the text and website design/building for an artist’s website. Irma Vega de Bijou [...]

Who isn’t consumed by this election? I mean, even Paris Hilton is aware of it.
Right before my husband left for China, he suggested I make my Obama cookie into a poster. It sounded like a good idea. I’ve pondered doing something like this for a while; a few years ago, my friend Carol called and [...]

In about a week we’ll know who will be the next President of the U.S. Personally, I wish this election were today. I think it’s making people crazy. On my way out of the local supermarket, I passed by a man and a woman arguing about the upcoming election. Normally, If people are having it [...]

He loves me. And seven years ago today, we tied the knot.
Look what arrived this morning! Wolf called the florist all the way from Beijing and had them deliver on a Sunday.

Since I put my creative pen down late last year, I haven’t thought too much about writing fiction. Can I tell you something? It feels okay. If I started to detail what really happened with my script, I would embark on a rage, to say the least. Writing fiction equals a lot of head-bashing. So [...]

Earlier this week, my husband called from Beijing to tell me that he forgot to pack something very important: the American Cinematographer Manual. It’s a small dictionary-size reference book that serves as a guide for cinematographers while shooting. I always thought my husband was a genius and knew everything there is to know about cameras, [...]

I had a vision of making tons of these little houses, setting them up in neat little rows and placing miniature figures of people and dogs in front. For nearly an hour I tried to “glue” these pieces together with melted chocolate. I didn’t want to use regular royal icing because I didn’t want them [...]

That’s what the man behind the counter at my local post office said. When he placed my box on the scale, he asked in his monotonous, rote-memorized manner: “Anything hazardous, perishable, liquid, or flammable inside?”
I paused. Does anyone ever say: “Why yes, there’s some TNT in there. Oh, and a few hand grenades as well [...]

Amidst the economic and stock market turmoil, and the run-up to the election, I almost forgot that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A few years ago, during a routine exam, my doctor found a lump in my right breast. She immediately said she wasn’t too worried about it, but the lump was significant [...]