Halloween was a Friday in 2003. Fifteen years. I’d been driving all week, my tiny vehicle crammed with boxes, sharp corners wedged into curves. I could barely close the trunk, and my seat was rammed so far forward that I hunched the steering wheel nearly 3,000...
Every summer for as long as I can remember our family went camping. Dad worked for Raytheon, and our vacations usually happened during their “summer shut-down” – two blissful weeks in the height of summer when we’d pack up the station wagon and hit the...
Well yes, I recently rejoined the wonderful team at ABC Television's What Would You Do to shoot the 'Parallel Parker From Hell' flashback edition! It was a terrific shoot on the streets of downtown Montclair. AND - at long last, it's coming to a tv near...
An urgent call, email and two texts on Friday from a dear-but-far-away friend brought a new project: KCRW's 5th Annual 24-hour Radio Race. I'd never heard of this wonderful thing and I was intrigued. KCRW in Santa Monica hosts this annual competition in which contestants...
Back into the wilds of Montclair, NJ—crashing cars & influencing people, all over again...
What a fun session yesterday—in the booth with the good folks of Uncanny County. If you haven't caught it yet, it's a fun, quirky, darkly comic and now award-winning podcast that offers a paranormal audio play each month. Their first season was a terrific hit—you can catch up on any...
I love listening to the rain. I especially love listening to the rain when I know I don't have to be out in the rain. At least not yet. Not for a little while anyway. I edit-edit-edit away my Friday morning, then updates and outreach and calendaring...
One of the things I missed most when I was in California—there were no thunderstorms. Deep in the morning hours John woke me to see the show. Our windowsills now are deep, and I curled up in this one to watch the sky - it was...
Such a strange day today. A brilliant blue spring day, and the air is warm and crystal clear. John left early to head north toward Maine, so I was keeping my eye on the clock - I wanted to be home early for the pup...
She bounded in on September the Eleventh, three years ago today. The rescue had named her Greta, and before that she’d been “Zippy” and “Hyena.” (Yes.) She was anxious and alert, and more than a little bit wary (but boy did she know how to...