If I had billions of dollars I would just build affordable housing for all the struggling people in Seattle. It’s a band aid over a bullet hole but at least people have temporary relief from the elements. I would also double NIH or CDC or UNHCR funding or prevent the extinction of elephants.

It’s been so long since we made national news for a non-sucky non-LePage reason! Woooo Maine!

It is so fucking weird that we start every sporting event with the national anthem. (I mean, it’s not, nationalism, war games, blah blah, but it’s so fucking weird!)

I think we have a problem today where we too often take the lens of our current sensibilities and cultural landscape and then look back on the past, judging it from our perspective alone.

It really took my breath away when I read it this morning. He was someone who you kind of thought had made it through the rough times and was using what he learned to help other people.

I did not generally care for his “personality”, but Les Halles was one of my very first “eye opening” food experiences in NYC. Having come from a family where people only ever ate steak medium well, when I ordered steak frites done medium well there, the waiter kindly and patiently explained to me that that was not a…

This is not a good week. My heart goes out to the families of Bourdain and Spade. I’ve lost more than one person to suicide and it’s devastating.

You are not a lost cause. You have worth. The world is a better place with you in it.

This is hitting me hard this morning and I’m still trying to come to grips. I’m currently doing the work to try to get a handle on my depression and it’s so fucking hard. And it’s expensive and time consuming and draining! But I’m hoping there is light on the other side. But when I hear about Anthony and Kate Spade,…

Hawley is using the surrealistic imagery as a crutch more and more this season. Syd met Melanie in a place where she has no reason to be, and she seems now able to do things she couldn’t possibly do, including showing her footage from her own mind. So Syd starts timidly questioning how Melanie’s able to do that, but…

Samantha was the best of them.

The thing about making design look effortless is that in the end, it makes it harder to argue how valuable your talents are. I always try to share a little context about the work that went into what I’m showing. In my experience it makes clients even more respecting of your work and likely to approve your ideas, or at…

Blair Underwood is hot.

Not exactly on topic, but I feel like 2013 (and 2008, for what it’s worth) WAS yesterday, and I’m just now realizing that was 5 and 10 years ago and is this what middle age is like?

Shit, I’m tearing up just reading this dumb review. Dumb feelings! Making me cry dumb tears! I really don’t know if I can handle watching this in a theater. The trailer made me tear up several times. Ugh. I’m a mess.

I remember that Johnny Carson every so often would tell a snarky Fred Rogers joke. Until Rogers appeared on his program. I happened to catch it the night it ran, and you could tell inside of a minute that Carson was absolutely charmed and impressed by him. After that, I never heard a Fred Rogers joke on the Tonight…

I consider myself very lucky to have met and worked with three celebrities, not just one, who are every bit who you think they are and 100% lovely amazing people. Can anyone approach the level of honest sainthood of Mr. Rogers? Possibly not, but dang if Weird Al doesn’t come close.

I met him once at PBS’ annual meeting. He was the final speaker of the multi-day event. Often, celebrity speakers quickly vanish backstage following their presentations, but Fred stuck around. And normally, those of us in attendance rush off to the closing reception or to our dinner plans, but a lot of us stayed too.

Shit I’m crying reading this article.

I had to find resources for how to help a small child deal with the death of a parent, and Mr Roger’s site was one of the ones that child psychologists & grief counseling sites pointed to most frequently - there’s lots of great materials there for how to talk to kids about all sorts of tough topics. He really wanted…