It didn’t come out in time for tonight’s Book Passage event but it will be coming out in Tuesday’s paper. Look for it. Thanks!
Hope to see you there tonight!! Come for a moving sharing, to speak your heart, and to remember together.
If you missed the official opening, or if you wish to come again, you are invited to a marvelous event presided over by the glorious Isabel Allende at her favorite book store in Marin. I and others will be reading from Noe and we will have a remarkable encounter with the deep reaches of life. Isabel’s book Paula, about her daughter who died of porphyria, sets the bar for this form of memoir. Noe may be in second place, but new and alive with love and experience that is accessible to all. If all goes according to plan, Paul Liberatore’s review of Noe will appear in the Marin Independent Journal on Thursday July 28th. Look for it! And I am looking forward to seeing you at Book Passage Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Blvd Corte Madera, California 94925
I am deeply honored by Isabel Allende’s Introduction of Noe on July 30th at 7 PM Book Passage–Corte Madera. Isabel has been a great friend during Noe’s writing and her delightful and prescient wit and great literary accomplishment will make for a truly remarkable evening. Isabel’s distinguished book about her daughter Paula who died an untimely death has set the bar for memoirs by parents in love and loss.
The Opening at Alexander Book Store was attended by old and new friends in abundance and I was deeply moved to have such a loving send-off. Thanks to all my friends who came and gave their heartfelt support!
50 Second Street–just off Market. Food and Wine. Book Presentation and Signing, Videos, Recollections, Love.
Parking–on the Street after 6PM in most places, Mission Street Garage at 5th, the Sheraton Palace across the street=$$$
Tikkun’s daily blog examines the reactions to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) from multiple perspectives, including Michael Bader, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and Phil Wolfson:
Look at that torso. A glimpse of that too identifiable chin. Goodness, he is a hulk, for a small guy really buffed, a slim Jewish Schwarzenegger and he can’t show it to anyone lest he get caught and his career snaffued. After all, Obama half naked revealed abs and pecs and that was a steal not a reveal. And Strauss-Kahn, we have only heard not seen. And at 62, younger than me, but well, still old, what was he thinking (or not). And Clinton and Edwards, no revelations there, that is in the buff. And Spitzer, very homely and bald, paid for it – sex that is–not much personal allure for the mass virtual physical groping.
The strenuously cultivated and constantly calculated careers damaged and lost for what benefit and from what psychological causes or aberrations. Is it truly possible to believe you can get away with any such subterfuge in the age of global information sharing? You gotta be kidding yourself to expose, or pay, bribe, think an affair is secret and will be kept secret. No doubt the prior California Guv basted his problem children and mothers with dough in exchange for a long silence that allowed him to run for office and stay in. He was known for groping before the first election. And Strauss-Kahn had also been implicated and warned before his current imbroglio. Seems to be in character with these two–and unrestrained. The ex-New York Guv appears to have confined his spending to hookers – many 10s of thousands of dollars spent on fornication. And Edwards apparently jism-ed public money in a stupid attempt to get away with his infidelity, forever reminding us of the ugliness of a betrayal of a wife near death.
So many white male politician lawyers – Wiener and Arnold are not – the rest are. Is that a key to the dunce club door?
