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Hi All,

It’s really interesting; I was wondering how viewers felt about my moving here to Santa Fe NM from L.A. so I’ve been gauging their take on it while on the road.  Every time I get the “Ooooh”, followed by this almost wistful look in their eyes — and indeed this place warrants that kind of reaction in person.

Downsizing and moving has triggered a tremendous series of changes.  Many, if not all, have been extremely positive. Often, in order to move forward and reinvent, there has to sometimes be a physical move to drive the point home.

Having lived in LA off and on for 20 years, I knew it was time to return to small town values, concerns and ‘community’. It’s where I started one of the careers that you know about–in the small town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio over 15 years ago.

While I could say I’ve come full circle, the truth is it’s very different.  Firstly, I’ve never believed that one can ‘go home again’, because we ourselves have changed.   But I do believe one can return with fresh perspective.  In Chagrin, I had dreams of teaching about personal creativity through interior design.   It was a hard and fulfilling journey that eventually landed me on TV inventing an entire new genre of TV where I remained for 11 years—as a matter of fact I’m still on it—can you believe it?   With it came fame, Emmys, big business and politics.   But it was worth it to have done it and then returned, now by absolute choice, to small town living — but now from a whole new perspective.

To re-embrace community life once again with all these ‘big-city-show business’ experiences under my belt has made me far more appreciative and ‘in the moment’, even if everything is all new.  It’s what one needs to move forward for a new point of view.

I will be doing quite a bit of writing about this experience as it unfolds.

Later, CL