20 truths & 10 lies​

Guess a lie then find the birthday girl to see if you’re right.

  • My senior quote was “ad astra per aspera”
  • I spent a summer building boats in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine
  • I spent a summer photographing performances at the Palo Alto Chidrens Theater
  • I’ve eaten dinner in the catacombs in Rome
  • I’ve hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim
  • My ears have been pierced since I was 30 days old
  • I made rent money after college by working as a dominatrix
  • I spent a summer blacksmithing in Saugatuck, Michigan
  • I attended a three day rave on a farm in Zambia called Solipse, timed with a total solar eclipse
  • I threw out a first pitch at an MLB game in 2024
  • I worked the Cardinals table at the 2006 NFL draft in Madison Square Garden
  • I co-curated an exhibition on the English architect John Pawson for IVAM, the Museum of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain
  • I can do the splits
  • I’ve attended the finals of all four tennis slams
  • I didn’t have my first passport until I was 15
  • I sat in Winston Churchill’s chair in the Imperial War Museum
    For my 50th birthday
  • I asked 50 of my favorite women to lunch
  • On a tour of the Galapagos following the path of the Beagle the ship hit rocks and sank; one person died and the other 23 of us crammed into a life raft made for 12 before being rescued hours later by a French sailor circumnavigating the globe solo
  • I spent a year sketching as many of Le Corbusier’s buildings as I could get access to in France (the customs house was the toughest)
  • I am fascinated by manhole covers and often photograph them (Japanese ones are my favorite)
  • I’ve never been to the Statue of Liberty
  • I’ve been to raves in abandoned train stations and industrial buildings all over London
  • I’ve attended underground (in all senses of the word) art events in the catacombs in Paris
  • I’ve been on the kiss cam at a Suns game
  • I’ve had picnics on the roof of the Duomo in Milan
  • I’ve seen eclipses on three continents
  • I’ve practiced yoga daily for almost 30 years
  • I’m half-Jewish, half-Hindu
  • Derek Walcott, Nobel prize winning poet, read my favorite poem to me for my 21st birthday
  • I despise fruit covered in chocolate
  • I’ve lived in Phoenix longer than any other place
  • I’ve hiked the Appalachian Trail