Chance = Change

...and there is snow in Upstate New York, snow on the ground in Michigan.....guess I'd better find our snowboots! Thank goodness we're driving: we can throw all sorts of stuff into the car and worry less about actual packing!

Gorgeous here today though, cold and crisp and sunny as a golden apple...after a week of the most horrible odd humid weather, with that dangerous-feeling edge of chill around it....no one knew quite what to wear! Hot,then cold, then warm,then chilly...awful. I caught a nice fat cold and it has yet to really go away...most unpleasant.

I had a lovely radio booking yesterday morning for something that i actually felt good doing: onbehalf of the Philadelphia Committee for the Aging, a spot asking for contributions to their Emergency Fund that supplies needy elderly with heat over the Winter months..a well-writen spot, fully 60 seconds, and fun to do because it was so well-written...sort of dramatic, with room for actual interpretation. What they call a "phone patch" from Philly, with me inthe NYC studio down at 38 Green Street Studios, and the writers and producer in the Philly studio, and we communicated by phone through my earphones...I've done a fair number of these sorts of patches through the years, and the technology has gotten so good, it feels like we are actually all in the same studio...fun. And easy.

Then, because my next appointment was not until several hours later up at Bernie Telsey's office on 28th, I used the time to explore SoHo , which I have not done in a while, and it was so terrific...it has become so very trendy and chic, and the galleries of art are now as trendy as all the famous designer shops that now are there..the cutting edge of everything fun in clothing and art...I had coffee in this amazing (though temporary) Illy Coffee Gallery down on West Broadway, where coffee making is the featued art, and the space is modern ,white,huge,airy, showcasing all their latest espresso machines and coffee products...very chic and minimalist..and tucked back in one corner of this enormous space is a cozy, yet modern, library of books all about coffee: its history, life stories and numerous witty observations concerning what one book calls "the Devil's brew"...I sat, sipped and read...extremely relaxing. Art and coffee...the art of coffee...amazing and so very SoHo...then I found a sweet little hair shop and got a haircut by a sprite named Merissa, lovely and skinny with tattoos all over her slender arms, and her hair spiked high to the ceiling, black as a downtown midnight against her very pale skin...we had fun there too, and the cut is marvelous! Kenny, the shop owner, middle-aged like me, played Otis Redding at full blast, and i felt right at home!

Then on to Telsey's for an American Express audiion,where I saw Jeff McArthy, Barbara Walsh, Alison Frazer,and others, all old pals, and we chatted merrily...

Made dinner for my darling husband, and we both relaxed...he slept soundly on the sofe after dinner...these early morning subway rides downtown to his office have genuinely wearied him, and the week in Michigan will be a good time to talk about all that....they seem to really want peter to actually workt here full-time because, as usual, he is so good at what ever they give him to do....

Today i see Victoria W. again, as her audition for NYU is tomorrow and she and her delightful Mom came up from the South to coach with me today, just to make sure she's ready...she is definitely ready! A very talented girl, a hard worker, and a very nice person to boot!

Then i go to a quick audition for THE SOPRANOs (a tiny weeny part), then tonight we go see yet another wonderful student of mine in her school prodution of SOUND OF MUSIC, and she is the star! We shall take her a few posies, with love.

Then, TOMORROW MORNING, we drive to Michigan...when we will pack is still a bit of amystery, but we will do something about that tonight, I guess...darling Peter is so exhausted, i shall probably drive for the first half of the journey at least...let him sleep the pups snuggled on his lap...I'll sort of miss being with our "family" here for TDay, but it'll be great to be with Pat and Charles Y. too, as ever, and they will take very good care of usm as usual...I finished knitting a surprise for pat's birthday...far from perfect, but filled with love deep and true!