Who Are the True Rock Stars of Fine Art?

Last week when I was in New York, my girlfriend, Jo, and I visited four of my favorite art museums: the Metropolitan, the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick, and the Whitney. I’ve been painting oil portraits for 25 years, while Jo’s art forms are culinary and tango, not visual art, and since this was

21 Nov, 2013
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Broadway Plays as a Glimpse into Life

Richard Bach, one of my favorite authors, introduced me to the concept that when we are truly ready for the answers they appear on any page we are reading.I’m writing this while flying back from six days in New York City, where I went to four Broadway plays and noticed that Bach’s lesson couldn’t be

12 Nov, 2013
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Four Mosiac Images

I swim for 50 minutes five days a week and am fortunate to have my own pool. The plaster surface of the pool disintegrated with age, and recently I needed to have it resurfaced.My friend Alex recommended someone who had just re-tiled his pool. When Tom, “the Desert Glass” guy, came to my house to

31 Oct, 2013
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Sunday Breakfasts with My Mother

Every Sunday I have breakfast at Nate ’n Al’s delicatessen in Beverly Hills with my mother. Sunday breakfasts with her have become a tradition for me and for my younger daughters, both of whom live in Los Angeles. My mom—Grandmother Leah to my children—is 95 and came to live with me three years ago; the

24 Oct, 2013
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Shedding Toxic Relationships

In my most recent therapy session, I was working through painful problems in a close friendship. The breakdown in the relationship as to do with money. I’ve found that an abundance of money can be both a blessing and a curse—in that there seems to be a culture with some people I’m close to that

17 Oct, 2013
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