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Dude Ranch on Wheels
It is a fact, that besides the world needing more Aloha, the world needs more cowboys…friendly, helpful and lotsa,“Howdy M’ams” said with a smile and a tip of their cowboy hats. We learned that first-hand when moving from Maui to the “Team Roping Capital of the...
Gone Too Long
How to know when you’ve been away from your tropical paradise too long: 1. You’ve got moss growing where your feet should have been: 2. You’ve got bananas coming out of your hoses and hydraulics: 3. Plus there are ferns procreating in your tires: 4. And idle hands are...
Name-Dropping: Dr. Elmo Who?
Is it name-dropping if no one has a clue whose name it is that you’re dropping? I am the first to admit that Lorraine Brodek is one such name…thus the title of my book A Nobody in a Somebody World. But Dr. Elmo Shropshire? Dr. Elmo who? Starting right about the time...
Name Dropping: Dr. Elmo Who? Part 2
With a big grin, Neil greeted me in his office. We have been friends for over 30 years from when he was knee-high to a surfboard. “So Neil, I understand you’re out of stock on my book,” I said with a broad smile. Neil Hasegawa & Dr. Elmo “How’d you hear that?” he...
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About Me
Lorraine is a former needlecraft designer who formed her own company (Fingerworks, Inc.)
during the 1970’s and 80’s. With this marketing experience, she ventured back into her chosen
field of film and television and rose up the ranks as an executive with Warner Bros. (Time-Warner). She is also a landscaping professional, author, humorist and artist. She has published four books: “The Tale of Peeky Peeper” (a fun children’s rhyming Holiday book, which she also illustrated); followed by her humorous memoir, “A Nobody in a Somebody World: My Hollywood Life in Beverly Hills.” Playfulness is the theme in whatever she does, as you’ll see in the two versions of her puzzle-like charted coloring books: “Griddles.” When she’s not creating something, you’ll find this 82 year-old grandma whacking a Pickle Ball, teaching movie
history, testing new recipes on her husband, Tom, or serving on the board of the Del Webb Performing Arts Center in Wickenburg, AZ.