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I love watching the Kennedy Center Honors each year. For those of you who don’t follow TV the way I do, it’s the repeat of the Kennedy Center’s Achievement Awards, where they award those in the arts for their lifetime contribution to American culture through their craft. This year celebrated Robert De Niro (film), Mel Brooks (comedy), Dave Brubeck (jazz), Bruce Springsteen (music), and Grace Brumbry (opera). It was Bruces’s tribute that stole the show. Jon Stewart (tell me he wrote ...read more  I had a meeting last week with someone who mentioned he was surprised the pundits were not talking much about this being the end of a decade. Decade in review? Who wants to talk about the decade marking the beginning of this century? Would we as Americans want to focus on the death done to us at the beginning of the decade and then the death we did to others toward the end? The fall of our financial system? A ...read more I was feeling really sorry for myself last weekend. I love Christmas in the East. It’s the only thing I’ve ever known. I love the Christmas trees and my breath in the air when I am buying one. It tells me that I am there, in the season, in the moment. I love that the tree is very cold when it comes into the house. I love watching as the branches fall in the warmth of my home and I ...read more Somewhere deep inside, I think I believe you are how you wrap. I take wrapping way too seriously. And, I never, ever get it right. Each year I think up a new theme for wrapping Christmas and holiday presents. One year I did all white paper and cobalt blue ribbon. Stunning. Trouble was I only wrapped about three presents in it, then got behind and in the usual Christine’s approach to last minute procrastination make it work moments, I just started ...read more My friend’s house fell in the ocean yesterday. Ok, technically it wasn’t her house anymore. She sold it two years ago when it was clear there were only a few feet left between the ocean and the house, which had been moved twice already. This is a real picture of it from the newspaper. When another friend emailed it to me, I started to cry. The house has been around since my late twenties and there were many weekends of memories ...read more I hate buying something because it’s Christmas and we need to exchange presents. I hate the fact that every year I struggle to find things last minute. My intention each year, not to be confused with my actions, is to shop all year for Christmas gifts. When I come across something that ‘is’ that person, I will buy it. Then my intention is to keep it on a shelf in my closet, wrap it with real ribbon and great fanfare, ...read more Help. I think it’s an ugly word, and I hate asking for it in any way. In fact, I rarely do ask. I’m not sure if I fear the person will say no, if I think I’m not worth helping, or if I believe it’s a sign of weakness. No matter, I don’t ask. You all remember my meeting with Buck the deer in Utah. He is gone now, but he’s forever in my heart. Because of Buck, I had no ...read more I’m not big on the God thing, but I like Oprah’s God. She somehow makes it more about that inner voice inside that speaks to us. We know that voice is the right thing, but often we are too busy doing the wrong thing to stop and listen. Oprah says that the God voice inside her first whispers, then it speaks a little louder, and a little louder and when she still isn’t paying attention he slams her over the ...read more As you all know and are terribly over it all, I moved to LA two months ago. There is a parking garage at my office, and I now have a card that gets me in and out of the garage. I’m an official resident of my office building. On the first floor of the garage, there are ‘Visitor’s Parking’ spaces. I have been parking in the visitor’s space since I got there. I go to work extremely early (sometimes six ...read more I went last night to the celebration of the LAPD foundation. On the way over I felt uncomfortable because I kept thinking that the LAPD is the one that has all the race relations problems, and why was I supporting that? Didn’t I see video of them kicking the (*&^( out of a defenseless man on the ground who happened to be black? When I got there, my friends told me that the department I was referring to was the ...read more |
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