Greetings! 

Working on plans for my next trip to MI for taping & a bit of fun.   I have several interviews lined up & am working to confirm a few more.  I will post the list of guests just before I split from NYC to head to the midwest.  Manhattan to Michigan. 

I am also working on my In a Heartbeat website.  Stay tuned for that...

In my Riverside (literally) Drive apartment, I have this enormous dry-erase board which essentially works as my TV show 'think tank'.  I have listings of upcoming shows, ideas or plans for shows in various cities, my list of dream interviews (working on those), bios or articles per guests & then a collection of my favorite The New Yorker cartoons, most of which are 25+ years old.  My favorite concerns two snails & a tape dispenser.  That's all I'm sayin'.

This board also contains bicycles in all forms - pictures, magnets, even a few paper clips transformed into magnets.   Then there is the mass of coffee magnets, many of these gifts.  I love coffee.  But only good coffee. 

Among the chaos (& the bliss) I have three pictures which blow my mind. 

One is of Einstein, part of my original 'Einstein Shrine' which I created on a kitchen cupboard door when the kids were growing up.   I wanted my kids to have a visual memory of him in many pictures, some looking serious & some very relaxed.  I wanted Einstein to be someone whom they had 'contact' with on a daily basis.

I have this picture of a metal utility cart, painted royal blue, loaded with electrical cables of many colors, all coiled as if ready to spring into action.   I mentally labeled this photo 'Potential'.  The photo was taken in early Spring of 2000 on my brother's property where we were shooting a film, but that's another story.

The third picture is on the TV set of Positively Positive.  Jeanie & I had just finished our interviews with The Miracles, The Contours & Undisputed Truth.  We gathered for a group shot & the artists sang us out with "Amen."   We had taped this show during the prep for the Detroit 300 Celebration.  What a show!  I love this picture for many reasons, a few being that we all were younger (hahaha), the studio had been filled with glorious acapella music & Jeanie was so healthy & vibrant, gorgeous with her well-loved smile.   Her husband, Robert, was right along with us, loving the music & the day.  It is a joyful picture.

Then there are a few more pics, most absurd, plus a couple of TP lists to discuss with two specific friends.  That is totally another story for another day.   For now I need to hightail it into gear to get ready to attend my WWKiP Day event in Washington Square.   Andrea (the storm) decided not to crash the scene so we are 'all systems go' . . . & I am gone!  Whoooosh!