21 Mar 2012
Now’s your chance to see Lance live. For those of you in St. Pete/Tampa/Sarasota, I’ll be stepping out from behind the comforts of bloggyland to spin one of my yarns into a microphone (gulp), in front of a crowd (gulp) Friday night at Creative Loafing’s Story Time, Volume 2: Fate and Fortune at the CL [...]
20 Feb 2012
Back in December, I interviewed Toby Perlman, the wife of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman. It was a phone interview and Henry started whimpering in his crib midway through it. I was having a bad day. I was stressed and sleep deprived. I had dried baby vomit on my shirt. I was swigging cold coffee and [...]
15 Sep 2010
Say hello to Jane. If you’ve not met, let me properly introduce you: Jane was the BEST magazine ever. This issue –– the PREMIERE issue –– was (and still is) my favorite issue of any magazine ever. Jane is why I became a journalist. Jane and Mark Twain and a couple of other things. But [...]
Posted in constructive criticism, courage, Drew Barrymore, Faith Hill, favorite things, girlfriends, Jane, magazines, reporting, sisterhood, story scooping by: heidi
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06 Jan 2010
… if you want to read the stuff I write for a living. This story came out today. And this one made me happy. It came out before Christmas with the photo of the young saxophonist below. Both photos are mine. These two guys should hold you over for about five minutes. You see how [...]
21 Jul 2009
Sigh. It’s been 11 days since I last posted. I’m all clogged up. I need some brain drain-o. When I get my hands on some, I’ll be back with entertaining stories. I promise. In the meantime, let it be said that tonight I beat Joe 500 to 265 at Rummy. I shall sleep like a [...]
30 Mar 2009
My mother told me this when she and my dad were out visiting last week. It was the first time I’d heard this story and I thought it explained a great deal everything: When I was about five years old, I moseyed into my bedroom with an ice cream come. You know the type that come [...]
25 Mar 2009
My interview with Yoko Ono ran in Tampa’s Creative Loafing this week. Check it out here. And thanks to everyone who e-mailed and posted questions. I went over the moon when she talked about the day John Lennon learned she wasn’t a virgin. – PS. Illustration by fairy-jeraimi.
Posted in art exhibit, celebrity crushes, Channelside, drawing, florida, John Lennon, reporting, story scooping, Tampa, The Beatles, Yoko Ono by: heidi
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01 Mar 2009
I‘m interviewing Yoko Ono tomorrow about John Lennon’s artwork. I’m looking for question suggestions. Thanks!Heidi – PS. Sketch is United We Stand, by John Lennon. PPS. Happy 60th day of the year.
06 Sep 2008
Divine guidance can be found in a reporters notebook. … “No one ever wanted to ride with us in the winter because we only had two blankets. And in the summer, when temperatures reached 95 degrees, we choked from the heat because the car didn’t have air conditioning.” – Roberta Tengerdy, with husband Tom, on [...]
Posted in Cathy Guisewite, celebrity crushes, centenarians, Jared The Subway Guy, kindness, love, lovey doveyness, mushy anecdotes, Rattletrap Car, reporting, road trippin, Sarasota, story scooping by: heidi
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17 Jun 2008
This is a story I wrote for my paper that was scooped before publication by the big hairy daily in town. Since it never saw the light of day, here’s an unfinished version: STRIPPERELLA, Feb. 18, 2008 Let’s play a word association game. I say a word. You say what immediately comes to mind. I [...]
Posted in awkwardness, cherry blossom pole dancing, cirque du soleil, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Berkley, herald tribune, kyle, nicole phillips, reporting, Sarasota, story scooping, stripping, sweat by: heidi
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