Success.

It feels so far, far away. Like maybe it all happened in a dream or a movie. But not a movie that I wrote and starred in. Just one I happen to have watched, on a loop, for several years. God, I miss that movie.

I used to have my own TV show

A nationally syndicated dating game…

you sound like you
like you from before
was it all a dream?
like the worst plot twist in a terrible movie
a letdown cop-out of an ending
only this would be good
surprising, but good
what I thought was your worse nightmare
was it really mine all along? …

Alice Neel in Cool, Dead Women on a Bench art series

First up in my new series of, Cool, Dead Women on a Bench, is figurative American artist, Alice Neel (1900–1984).

I’m a huge fan of Alice’s style. Her paintings of people have a feeling that goes way beyond resemblance…

i avoid the phone in the morning. i let it lay face down. what i don’t know can’t hurt me. i have my coffee, do yoga, check email. finally, when i can no longer put it off I pick up the phone. it’s only another spam call from florida talking…

sitting in my dad’s favorite chair
the one he can barely get out of
watching a Shark Tank rerun waiting for him to return from the ER
we’re asking for $500,000 in exchange for 3% ownership in our company.
crazy evaluation
dad’s place was visited by Jumanji
door unlocked
socks everywhere
why was there a sock explosion?
lights on
my…

I gave him a face
this voice of yours
you’re right
he does look troubled
sad,
confused
he has what I have. the same disease.
you call him your friend
your enemy
the most brilliant man
the most despicable person
so witty
so vulgar
He knows so much about our family
about you
how does he know so much?
i tell you he knows what…

dad has a visitor
residing in his mind
doctor says it’s the isolation
i watch closely and can see
you like the company
at first
but you complain of the repetition
the voice says, i love my wife. I love my wife. I love my wife
you tell me, it’s boring. what do I care if he loves…

I’m currently on a virtual blog tour for my recent book, Just a Girl in the Whirl, and a question that keeps coming up in interviews is, where do you get your ideas?

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

This idea about an idea coming from some unknown place, got me thinking.

Where do ideas come…