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A friend with two adopted children told me that studies show that the girls tend to be very curious about their biological families but that the boys aren’t. The boys tend to be angry. Whether this is a universal response is hard to know as everyone has their own individual reactions to their life circumstances. My friend was saying the boys feel that they weren’t loved and that is why they were put up for…
My horoscope was right on the money again – uncanny how that happens. I’ve been sort of in an anti-social mood, preferring instead my solitude and the company of Tin. It’s not like I don’t want to see anyone, because we go out and walk and run into people and I stop and chat, but I’ve been enjoying my solitude. For the 16 years I was married to Steve, he and I both traveled quite…
I’ve been watching CSpan and the Weather Channel in the morning and have been hyper conscious of the local advertisements on television. My favorite is this one about a planned real estate development across the lake, where the narrator says “Great for the family, there is space to roam, and trees, and even horseback riding!” Right at that moment they cut to a little girl petting a donkey. Cracks me up every time I see…
Ruby brought Tin another hand me down, this time it was a monkey pj complete with little monkey feet. After waking up a number of times last night, possibly because he was cold, I was anxious to get him in the jammies for the first time. Here he is – Mama you haven’t seen these but they are SUPER cute and so is he. Everyone keeps commenting on how much he has grown! It’s nutty.…
When Margarete left today, it was another beautiful day and time to get Loca out of the house so I suited up Tin and we walked the length of the bayou from Desais to Orleans and around. My neighbors were having a beautiful picnic on the bayou composed of lettuce from their garden, fresh tomatoes, hummus and Stacy’s Pita Chips. And M had her pogo stick. Tin fell in love with the Stacy’s chips and…
For years television writers have been trying to capture the spirit of New Orleans in a drama and have failed. Not because their efforts weren’t good, but because the world just couldn’t understand the message. New Orleans is perhaps one of the more unique places in this world and knowing the city is something that comes viscerally and no other way. So I read in the New York Times magazine the excellent review of the…
March 26, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) You just love peace, quiet and quality time alone with your favorite people. Today, you’ll whittle down that small and discriminating guest list even further until it only accommodates a party of two, which will suit you just fine. It’s Friday, that’s the good news — so you two can legitimately retreat from the rest of the world without fear of being discovered, finally. Enjoy every minute.
The weather woman was wrong – it was beautiful today and ugly yesterday, they had predicted the reverse. So when it was time for Margarete to go, even though she had just brought Tin back from a stroller walk, I hooked up Loca and Tin and off we went around the bayou. But first we stopped to speak to Jerri and Loca took off after another dog and pulled Tin and the stroller right over.…
In the last twenty to thirty years waterfront property has become all the rage. With the newfound wealth that a lot of Americans created, everyone was looking to own a second home and it had to be on the water. Now, of course, those times are a changing, to be sure. But I was reading about Destin and other places where there is a war going on for who controls the public space between the…
The last two nights I have had a restless sleep, waking up to sounds Tin is making on the video camera, or from nightmares about my family. Most of these weird dreams have centered on my mother appearing, coming over, being front and center but already dead, almost like a zombie in the midst. It’s probably because I’m finishing up unfinished business that relates to her and so her afterlife state is every present on…