After a few decades of being out of touch, my HS BFF,  Jackie Woolsey O’Brien  and I reunited in California where she lives on a ranch with her utterly cool rocker Hollywood restaurant owning husband, their horses and dogs.  For the past year Jackie & I have been Skyping and a writing a film script. The process was too slow and we needed to be face to face. We basically went on lock down for a week to hammer out the script outline....

You’re in a crowded dark hot room lit with black lights, the music is blasting, the sweat is pouring out of every pore of your body. You are practically brushing up to the pumped up semi-clothed strangers on either side of you. are you in a nyc night club?  no, you’re at Soulcycle . I have a love/hate relationship with Soulcycle at this point and plan on going back to resolve it one way or another . pros: the studio is so dark,...

Muscles are the “engine” that your body uses to propel itself  they turn energy into motion. It would be impossible for you to do anything without your muscles. Absolutely everything that you conceive of with your brain is expressed as muscular motion. The only ways for you to express an idea are with the muscles of your larynx, mouth and tongue (spoken words), with the muscles of your fingers (written words or “talking with...

Found these punchy green down filled pillows*  for twenty dollars each at a teeny antique shop on Railroad Avenue in Warwick. Like a pair of green traffic lights, these pillows say “GO”! *Did I over karate chop them?

1-Ever wonder about instructors playlists? ok, maybe not, but if you do, here’s my secret . . . never, ever listen to your playlist if you’re not using it to workout.   those tunes are sacred !! 2-Kneipp!! Remember that name next time you are in an high end pharmacy. Kneipp makes the most divine mineral bath salts. Made in Germany from pure and natural spring salts.  My favorites are: Arnica for post workout relief.  Juniper to...

1.  getting rid of superfluous crap . . .  edit! edit! edit! 2.  not feigning affection 3.  balancing my schedule 4.  letting go of obsessive thoughts 5.  learning how to make a fabulous martini & negroni 6.  holding a plank for three minutes