Not only do I love NY, I adore my friends here. We met up with a few of them for breakfast this morning (according to most of them, 9 am was an indecent time to have your eggs benedicte, but they were willing to sacrifice a few hours of sleep for our manic jet-lagged schedule). […]
moreWe just landed in NY, the city we both lived in, loved, it's even the city where we first fell in love with each other. We wandered the streets of the East Village, past my old studio on 1st & 8th, past my man's old apartment on 4th & 2nd, and within minutes we talked […]
moreYet another primary school. This one is advertised as being Christian. The headmistress chuckled when we asked about religion. She said, "I'm an atheist, but the teachers do things like talk about Mozes. If it's an 'M' week, for example. Or Adam in an 'A' week. But then there's a whole list of other A's […]
moreI started flamenco classes again and because I had been away for a while, I wondered how to go about this. Reaching too high can be very frustrating. Yet, sitting comfortably at a level of skill beneath yours may lead to arrogance and the inevitable laziness. So here's what I did: I took the beginners […]
moreA woman who must have been about fourty-five, lay in the park reading a book entitled 'Why Men Marry Bitches'. The word 'BITCHES' was written in a bold, bright red font. The woman reading this book wore white bermudas. The colour of her toenails matched that of the word 'bitches'. As did her lipstick and […]
moreIn fact, I could fill up a whole blog on the things we writers say to each other about writing. Yet once you sit down to do it, it's best you forget everything that's ever been said.
moreThis evening I spoke to another screenwriter friend on the phone. As always, we talked about her writing and mine. I mentioned that for me, ending a scene (which in proze often stretches out over a full chapter due to all of the backstory) isn't a good idea because it always takes me at least […]
moreI had dinner with a close friend. She is a director/screenwriter and working on her first novel. When I asked about how she was doing with that, she said she was challenging herself to be as truthful as possible to who she is, to how she views life and what her outlook is on humanity. […]
moreToday, I received a copy of a magazine which published one of my articles. It's a magazine for coin collectors. On skimming through the magazine I felt a pang of jealousy: if only I could feel such passion for collecting something, anything. I envy the excitement a collector must experience when running into an object […]
moreWe visited another school for our son. This school was a special education school. Its philosophy is ‘we follow the child.’ Its method is called Montessori. The teachers don’t stand in front of the class, they sit and wait until the pupils – who work by themselves – come to them whenever they’ve finished whatever […]
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