…….last Sunday celebrated all things Japanese! It was such a great pleasure traveling to Japan with them this past spring as they are wonderful observers and bring their joie de vivre to everything! Have you seen the scroll they commissioned for their serene Tatami...

……was the perfect way to start the week! I loved this movie!!! Actually the star of the movie was a talking, machine gun toting, genetically altered, cybernetically enhanced raccoon….Rocket, voiced by Bradley Cooper.  You have a problem with that? His best bud is...

…..it was a great week….. beginning with Sunday’s event at Vroman’s in Pasadena.  Sweet and hugely multi-talented Black Belt (correct) Diana Ming Jeong invited me to a book signing for her awesome teacher Don Baird who is in the Martial Art Masters Hall of...

…..is becoming a tradition with ME being taken out.  Shouldn’t it be the other way around??? ……..Just saying….. Anyway, I’ll drink to that! It was so good to see Lauren…..we’ve missed her….. Foodie Sandie picked ‘Alta Eats’ tucked away on the Altadena/Pasadena...

…..bon vi-vant, mom’s favorite peep and general ‘man about town’! We began at ‘The Fig and Olive’ at 8490 Melrose Place in North Hollywood.  (Tomiko & I would get glammed up at Frederic Fekkai just down the block. Or is it ‘up the block’?).  Anyway, back...

……ended it’s run at the Ahmanson Theatre last Sunday and I was so delighted I didn’t miss it!  David Suchet, along with an international cast, starred in this production that was part of a world tour and they delivered some of the best acting I have seen in...

……..leading up to the 4th the birthday celebrating continued and it’s way past May 18th.  I must say this has been the longest in recorded history.  I thought that Tomiko had already done the birthday thing for me but she insisted no.  First there was a...

……is in it’s final week at LACMA.  If you didn’t see this second half of the collection I so hope you’re able to view the exquisite scrolls before the exhibit closes. Miss Judith, Eileen and Lizzie kindly picked me up on Sunday at mom’s and off we went to meet...

………has been dear to my heart for as long as I can remember.  Sandie Girl notice my ‘Winnie the Pooh’ book in the studio and commented about it. Happily I said that “Pooh Bear’ has traveled through life with me and how much I love him….This was overheard by Diane...

…… is located on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA. Many of you will remember the Dec. 2010- Jan.’11 exhibit in the ‘Shumei Hall Gallery’ showing my gifted students Brush paintings.  Jane Imai, one of the founders, was so very kind to us that when she asked if I...