Poker Face

March 22, 2011

Life is like a game of poker: if you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out. – Jackie ”Moms” Mabley, comedian A dark smoky room filled with men, the muffled sound of chips hitting the felt table, and silent tension hanging in the air is what one usually imagines. […]

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Twenty Years and 10 Minutes to Get to Carnegie Hall

March 17, 2011

“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances  the music.” — Isaac Stern I don’t know why it took me so long.  About twenty years and ten minutes to be exact.  Twenty years to make plans to go and then a 10-minute cab ride and there I was, standing […]

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Remembering to Laugh

March 4, 2011

“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Jimmy Buffett I don’t feel like writing today.  I am mourning the loss of a childhood friend who died last week after battling breast cancer for a year and a half.  I found out on Friday; funeral was Sunday.  I just had lunch with her […]

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Meditating on the Downbeat

February 25, 2011

This is a guest post by Laurey Bennett-Levy, a dear old friend who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two beautiful daughters.  An early supporter of the52weeks, she was inspired to go drumming recently — although if you ask anyone that knows Laurey she has always been one to try new things!    This […]

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Rise and Shine!

February 17, 2011

“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early, and it’s not jogging or greeting the day. It’s just that that’s when they make doughnuts.” – Kathy Griffin, comedian Some people are, by nature, early risers: best work done before 9am.  Me – not so much… I am generally not what you would call […]

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Untitled, Art

February 15, 2011

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings… Boy With Pail… Kitten On Fire…Steven Wright, comedian. “I don’t get it.” Remember the great scene from the classic movie Big, when Tom Hank’s character (a boy that literally becomes an adult overnight after making a wish at a carnival) raises his hand […]

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The Fighter

February 3, 2011

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. — Woody Allen Mark Wahlberg (Micky Ward) in the Oscar-nominated film, The Fighter:  Aging quickly.  Lives in Lowell, Massachusetts — tough neighborhood.  Endless monotony, potheads, crackheads, gloomy.  Supportive girlfriend. Trying to get “out” of his neighborhood, win the title and rise above his situation. Me:  Aging […]

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com mit ment

January 26, 2011

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” -Winnie-the-Pooh (and A.A. Milne) I looked up the word commitment the other day. It is defined as the act of committing, the state of begin committed; a pledge or undertaking; applying or engaging oneself. There are many kinds of commitments – for work, family, relationships […]

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

January 20, 2011

“It’s not you, it’s me…” “You’re giving me the ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ routine? I invented ‘It’s not you, it’s me.’ Nobody tells me it’s them, not me. If it’s anybody, it’s me.” George, Seinfeld It’s over.   I just can’t continue with you on a daily basis – even a weekly basis anymore, at […]

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Motivation Mindset

January 13, 2011

Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey It’s the beginning of a new year and time for that yearly ritual when many of us size things up, make resolutions, throw out the “old ways”, promise to bring in “the new” and start all over again. Don’t worry, […]

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