Journal, February 15, 2026
Valentine’s Day arrived on a Saturday this year, and even though I was thoroughly under siege by a stubborn cold, I somehow found myself awake before 7 a.m., determined to evict winter from the room. Out went the heavy, wintry everything; in came spring — lighter colors, Valentine’s decorations, and the general illusion that sneezing […]
Journal, February 9, 2026
As you can probably guess, the last two weeks have been filled with conversations with ChatGPT. I’ve continued training it to create a usable version of my notes, and it has been a work in progress the entire time. And yes—I still forget that it is not a human being. When I get angry and […]
Journal, February 1, 2026
I cannot believe it is already February. So many things have happened in the past two weeks. I have taken three hip-hop classes and realized two things: it is a lot of fun, and I am incredibly stiff. I have been trying to practice at home, learning new steps such as the Roger Rabbit, cabbage […]
Journal 15, 2026
My birthday is here, it starts with my daughter being feverish with likely Influenza. So, we do not go to school and after moving her to isolation and tucking her in I go to sleep for a bit only to get into barrage of phone calls from overseas. My watsup. Is pinging and can hardly […]
Journal, January 14, 2026
Today was definitely a day of my much more intimate acquaintance with ChatGPT. The image above has been created by ChatGPT. I finally got paid version of it and I asked it to create an image of middle aged woman talking to artificial intellect. We then proceeded to changing the woman’s hair, removing her earrings, […]
Journal, January 7, 2026
New Year has come, holidays are over, I left the cold and snow in New York and came to rainy LA with LA River being a river for a change and days of torrential rains. My yard is full of containers filled with rain water (we estimate to have about 500 gallons of it saved). […]
Journal, December 31, 2025
At some point everything comes to an end. This time is the year 2025. It has been huge. I was sitting in Blue Note Jazz Club in New York last night, listening to the virtuoso trumpet sounds and thinking about the year that is about to end. And what a year it was! It was […]
Journal, December 27, 2025
Finally we are in New York. It meets us with cold but thankfully dry weather. Runways cross cross fields of snow. 10 minute drive – narrow streets, bumper-to-bumper parking, honking despite the late hour and we are finally checked in to Holiday Inn Express. The room is clean and feels like a sauna. Coffee maker […]
Journal, December 19, 2025
I have to get a new car. I decided it will go to my son and armed and determined I set my foot into the dealership. I counted – throughout the years of my life in the US this is car #20 that I am buying. So the dance is quite familiar to me. Purchase […]
Journal, December 17, 2025
I had to say good-bye to my car today. It was heart wrenching for me. I probably sound melodramatic. However, I drove this car for 15 years and it is longer than anyone in my family ever held on to a car and I am sure it is longer that one usually hangs on to […]