thanks!

the long list

• My relationship with mother (we did not speak for nine years). We are very close now and talk regularly.
• My big sister (who was a mother to me when my mother wasn’t being a mother).
• That I am able to make a living doing what I love.
• All the times I have been in love (a lot!).
• To lose love(s). It has humbled me and taught me to let go.
• That I am still falling in love.
• My friends. (Who have been family to me when I thought myself an orphan).
• My Father. Who shipped me off to Hungary when I was nineteen and changed the course of my life.
  
• My big brother. Who built model cars with me for and giving me my first car when I was sixteen (a datsun 1967 411).
• That I can run five miles at the age 42!
• My health! My health! My health!
• That I never smoked, got into drugs or got pregnant as a teenager. (See above; thanks to big sister).
• For all of my travels to amazing places and All the amazing people I have made friends with along the way.
• Mucineni (Aunt Muci in Hungarian) The famous circus performer who taught me that a woman could live out her dreams.
• My Mom (again!) who taught me the love of food.
• OH and again my mom, who sewed all my clothes for me when I was little (and even some now) even though she hated sewing.
• My fabulous, kind and generous neighbors (and their very cute dog Karina)
• My studio mate, Beni. It couldn’t get any better!
• Twenty years of restaurant experience. Oh the things I have seen and heard!
• The friends I have made working in restaurants. The most brilliant people I know. Never and I mean NEVER underestimate the wisdom of a food server.
• That I can still spin pizza dough. (My first restaurant job).
• My sweet little apartment in this great city.
• Being surrounded by Artists and Craftspeople.
• That the earth is still spinning. We need to take good care!
• Music.
• Cookies. I love ‘em and life just wouldn’t be as sweet with out them.
• All the amazing plants and animals that inhabit this planet.
  
• That George Bush will be out of office very soon! I still can’t stand the sound of that man’s voice.
• The Schnick family. Who turned me on to Art and continually inspire me. Molly and Susannah, the closest I ever came to having children of my own, and who are now my friends.
• To all of the people who continually support me and what I do. That means YOU!
• Blessings to all of you. Remember to love one another. Even if it means you have to do it while the T.V. is blasting a football game.