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The Loss of Another Hollywood Legend
THE LOSS of ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD LEGEND By Elisa R. Goodman 8/31/21 News spread like a California wildfire this past Sunday when another beloved Hollywood icon left our planet – the lovable (but ever crusty), ED ASNER. ED ASNER, one of our favorite, quintessential...
The Loss of My Legend
Last Friday, August 21, 2020, we saw the passing of another legend – my mom, Natalie Goodman – who, up until recently, was among the last few surviving historians of the Golden Age of Television. With the recent passing of Carl Reiner at the end of June – this leaves...
“Enter Laughing”….but Exiting with Sorrow by Elisa R. Goodman
Today, we sadly learned about the passing of another iconic legend – the brilliant and funny, Carl Reiner - a staple in most of our lives for decades on the television and in movies including, “The Dick van Dyke Show” which he helped create – as well as dozens of...
E-VENTUAL HARMONY – Another Inconvenient Truth. A Pandemic Love Story
E-VENTUAL HARMONY Another Inconvenient Truth A Pandemic Love Story By Elisa R. Goodman April 5, 2020 Last week I started to wonder what will eventually happen to the “single” culture of future dating – in the current landscape of social distancing. I was listening to...
The ART of My Activism
The title is a chapter from my latest book, AWESOME: Fierce, Feisty and Fabulous…Women Game-Changing the World – an anthology/memoir celebrating 119 women ages 4-99 – whose creativity, vision, sense of style, values, activism & chutzpa has done much for the world...
The Ties that Bind You
THE TIES that BIND YOU: Do You have ONE FOOT IN and ONE FOOT OUT of Your Life? by Elisa R. Goodman Jan. 5, 2019 It’s the beginning of the year and I’m doing a Mindset/Reset with Mel Robbins – a motivational speaker and author of “The 5-Second Rule.” She has generously...
Reset Your Crazy Mind Chaos for 2019! by Elisa R. Goodman
January 4, 2019 Prompted by the wonderful Mel Robbins’ – who is offering a Free Mindset/Reset training for the month of January -- https://melrobbins.com/mindsetreset/ which you can join at any time. Nothing to sell, videos are also all over U-tube, IG & FB -- if...
FIRED UP, FED UP & FEELING those HOLIDAY BLUES…
As we roll into Christmas in a couple of weeks – and in the aftermath of the horrendous Los Angeles/Bay Area fires that ravaged and swallowed up whole towns, I have been in a reflective mood and somewhat, isolated state (aside from last week’s beautiful CRAFTY CASTER...
Are You Open to Communicating?
Just Saying 'Hi' -- Connection, Creativity and Correspondence - Millennials wanting to connect...the Old Fashioned Way! In August of this year, I was randomly contacted Veronica An, a staff writer at the online magazine, The Hub in Los Angeles. She was writing a story...
Sometimes, It’s Simply All About the Icing on the Cake and, sometimes, it’s just All About the EVE.
So a little shout out goes to The Geffen Playhouse Staff, Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis... I took my mom to the Geffen last night to see "THE CAKE" with Debra Jo Rupp who was DELICIOUSLY GREAT! (I highly recommend it!). It's playing through mid-October in the...
Clear the Cache to Clear the Ca$h!
BLOCK: verb 1.make the movement or flow in (a passage, pipe, road, etc.) difficult or impossible."block up the holes with sticky tape" synonyms: clog (up), stop up, choke, plug, obstruct, gum up, dam up, congest, jam, close; In an attempt to clear the...
“P” is for…Are YOU En Pointe to be Powerful in Your Life?
I have a dear friend and colleague who LOVES “P” words. Lately, I've been having a hard time making decisions and moving through some of my life boulders (real or imaginary). Since I create ART on a daily basis and share my own life wisdom for moving through my own...