My husband Joel has Lukemia, he has gone through all possible treatments and now we are waiting. So while we wait my son Doug, the Budhist told me his friend Tanot and the Monks from Thailand were coming to Encino and they would give Joel, the Orthodox Jew, a special blessing!! You can just imagine how excited Joel was, of course living with me has softened him up just a tad! I am not sure what made him agree to it, with of course, certain stipulations; He would not listen or talk to them and he may not even take his shoes or hat off, his gorgeous black curly hair is gone because of chemo,so he wears a baseball hat. [read more]

I looked in the mirror this morning and I said "who is this FAT woman!" as we say in L.A. oooh myyy goddd!*!* I must go on a diet..Now which one. How about the Atkins diet, on this diet you can eat 6 eggs with 4 pieces of cheese and a pound of bacon.. and as a snack a 16 ounce porterhouse, but no carbs! No this won't work, because I have high colesterol, which means no, eggs, bacon or cheese. Next the South beach diet, you can eat everything except in the first few weeks no Carbs, so how can I have a sandwich, "a turkey sandwich, please, with russian dressing, lettuce and tomatoes, hold the bread!" No that won't work either. Okay then how about weight watchers diet, a very well rounded diet you can eat every thing as long as you count the points, I get 25 points per day..listen, I can't even keep my check book straight much less points on a diet! Now someone told me about the Beverly Hills diet, I am not sure what this is, but I think you walk around Rodeo Drive and get sick looking at the size one women! On the other hand it's Saturday, so I will begin dieting starting on Monday! [read more]

Some years ago Shelley Fabares, wife of Mike Farrell, before she did Coach called my office to see a home in Sherman oaks, I was on the "floor" so I, the perfect realtor, took them out to see the house, they didn't like the home, but they or Shelley were willing to see other homes on other days. Mike never spoke to me, in fact he refused to get in my car! Shelley & I would drive in my car and he would follow in his suv, very popular car in L.A. Finally I decided to just get into his car or actually jump into his car before he could say a word. Now there was one little, little, problem, sometimes I get car sick driving in the back seat, yes I admit I am realtor who gets car sick and while I am admitting the truth, I also have no sense of direction, a very seriuos problem when you are a real estate agent. Oh and also I am a terrible driver,I actually believe that my clients buy homes fast, because they want to get out of my car for good as quickly as possible! Anyway if you have ever been car sick or seasick you know the feeling, your face gets paralized in an awful expression and you can hardly move your mouth which makes talking very difficult!. it was not a successful trip! I was showing them homes in Hidden Hills, a very exclusive area just outside the San Fernando Valley. The first home I showed them was John Davidsons parents home, John came out with his very sharp realtor and they just had a wonderful conversation with Mike & Shelley during which I think I grunted a few times. I can hardly remember the rest of the day. [read more]

I was invited to a book club by my old realtor friends and yes i admit i am one too. the book was Peace like a river. We were given two months to read it before our meeting. first we had dinner, chinese food, during dinner I asked, no I yelled, becuase evryone was talking at the same time, if the 7 women, all grandmas by now, if they liked the book, three of us had actually read the book, one didn't want to read it until she found out if we liked it. one read the first and last chapter and the rest didn't know what we were talking about! i was then told we didn't discuss the book until dessert time at one of the granny's homes. at the hostesses home we discussed the dessert, diets, who in our real estate community had sold the most houses this past year, who had gotten divorced and who had died! [read more]