orange peels & how it feels: coping with grief liam neeson-style

…Just like Liam Neeson, I’m getting good at surfing that wave along with all the other human beings who have had someone they love “Taken” from them. I’m calling on my Inner Action Hero to propel me forward…

synchro-mystic moments continue

…I’m in my car driving my two pupkies home from the vet’s this morning with Depeche Mode on the car stereo blaring out “Try Walking in My Shoes” and I feel the tears welling up. As I pull to a stoplight I wipe my eyes and see the truck in front of me. REALLY see it….

all of us, islands…

For his 60th birthday in February 2011, Scott had first planned for us to celebrate in India. He always celebrated birthdays but “big birthdays” required advance planning, and this one he was planning two years ahead. We …

artist to artist: brian foo captures scott’s essence

Scott recognized talent when he came across it. Whether it was the unfettered (and untrained) genius of an Uzbek tribal woman creating an embroidered suzani for her wedding day, the meticulous precision of Carlo Scarpa’s architecture, …

homecoming

Believe it or not: a flurry of butterflies accompanied my taxi for the first mile as I left the hotel for the airport out of Goa. The cabbie pointed them out to me as he thought it was unusual. Ha! He had no idea just how unusual. The golden yellow dazzlers pulled me out of […]