A bit about me
A second cousin is putting together a bit about the family, he asked for my bio, this is all I’ve got.
Things I’m good at – Making Messes, Skiing
Traveled to 67 countries; goal of 100+
Have a thing about islands in the middle of nowhere including Galapagos, Easter Island, Cuba, Bali, NZ, Tasmania,…
Danced with Gene Kelly (so memorable)
Been to the Oscars, Emmys, and Cannes Film Festival
Worked on the precursors of both Siri and Netflix
Landed my mom a credited role in a Carl Reiner film.
Worked with Rob Reiner et al, at Castle Rock in TV Development (we had a little show called Seinfeld)
Have been in 3 major earthquakes (9.2, 7.1, 5.9)
3 superbowls (one for fun, one for work, one I crashed!) 1 World Series
Worked on a bunch of tv shows and a couple of films. Edited scripts for Harpo Productions (Oprah Winfrey)
Attended Midsummer Night’s Dream party at Playboy Mansion West 2x
Got stranded in dead-end tunnel in Belgium Metro
Lunched with Dick Clark at his home in Malibu, dined with Quincy Jones at his house in Bel Air
Worked with MacArthur Genius Award winner Dr. Stephen Schneider on a tv show about climate change (was with Steve in NOLA when he was notified of his win…)
Got clocked skiing at 63mph in 2020
Did one year in National Ski Patrol – both my knees and I survived.
Barely Survived building a house in Santa Fe
Dined at Rick’s Place in Casablanca
Election Poll Worker in 5 elections
Volunteered over 1000 hours with various organizations
Decent cook – (my soufflés are legendary and I’m now allergic to eggs!)
Have flown close to 2 million miles
Hiked the Powell Nanokweap trail in/out of Grand Canyon at Marble Canyon
Once checked-in for a flight to Narita only to find out my ticket was to Nagoya (blonde moment) but enjoyed the trip anyway! Enjoyed Fu No Yu – View Bath at Nagoya Airport
Summited Half Dome in 2010 was scheduled again in 2020 but pandemic
Summited Mt. Fuji
Gave talks on travel hacking and took a month-long international trip on points!
Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane at 10K ft.
Spent a summer river rafting
Performed a stand-up comedy routine at The Comedy Club in LA
Survived a pandemic – so far
Really want to go to Antartica, Africa, and Argentina; have been to Andorra, Austria, Australia, Antigua…
Had this bio put into narrative by a 5 time Emmy award winner friend
Have fabulous friends, and thousands of twitter followers
I can swear in 7 languages, Blyad! (make that 8… )
Survived Legionnaires Pneumonia (nearly killed me) until which I’d never been hospitalized, had surgery, or anything (knock wood) worse than a flu and mild case of covid.