Fan mail

Dear “Lawrence Pingtrelle” — I received your recent email regarding my “Are You Posing or Living?” Game Plan column and wrote you a response, but it bounced back. Hmmmm. Since I just turned 50 and I’m feeling all open and authentic,...

Writing in motion

Decided to follow a pleasantly full Christmas week with a week in Rancho Mirage, Calif. to celebrate my 50th birthday, so it’s been a while since I posted here. Three Game Plan columns have gone live since I last wrote, all of which can be found on my Columns...

What a (valuable) doll

Don’t have to twist my arm to talk about Barbie, ever, so it was fun and illuminating to write a piece on Alternative Investing for CNBC about doll collecting. Really enjoyed speaking with Sandi Holder, who runs the Doll Attic in California, about her...

Some Puccini

Celebrating a milestone birthday next week and taking stock, so it seemed a logical time to try something new in the culture arena — the opera. My friend Kathi and I went to see Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at the Met in New York and the evening washed over...

Life Coaching Lindsay Lohan

I’ve circled around the possibility of virtually life coaching Lindsay Lohan a number of times. People have suggested it before. But something about this time, when a friend put the bug in my ear again, felt different. Maybe it’s because it’s the...