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Do you ever read her column? It is syndicated from The Washington Post – she is so smart. I sent her an email after reading her latest. It was a letter from a woman signed “starving for his attention” to which Carolyn responds: “…when it dawns on you, is that people can be busy; people can be slow to date, slow to trust, slow to find you physically attractive; people can be confused, distracted, scarred,…
One is a magnet with a woman resting her chin on crossed hands – the caption reads: “Tell me more.” One is a steel paper weight from Steve – the caption reads: “Every wall is a door.” One is a piece of paper with a quote by Joseph Campbell – he writes: “We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Last year, on New Year’s Eve, I was sick as a dog with the flu and sick in the heart from love(s) gone wrong, and at midnight I hung my head out the window and listened to the fireworks. A text message came from NY saying the New Year would be approached with “eyes wide open.” I was numb – unmoved by his message, by the freshness of a new year, and unmotivated to get…
This guy who used to work for me liked to tell me about how everyone needs to stand back for a moment to be sharp. He thought I was a whirling dervish. As mentally draining as the LaLa has been, this week it has been a physical drain, and between the two, I opted on Friday night to stay in, drink some hot tea, curl up with a book and unread newspapers, and let the…
I just had the most remarkable conversation with my accountant – a man name Bill Shine – this man is incredible. Really he is. When Steve and I were breaking up, I called him to go over how we should split our assets and he said, first thing, just remember to remain friends because you never know what will happen between you over time. Anyway, he was calling me today because last week when I…
This has been a day of shifting plans – an organic creation – LaLa all day, cleaning windows, sweeping floors, chucking trash – sorting paint. A quick reshuffle to pick up my niece from Memphis – adorable – just into college and already changing – drop her by my other niece and see my great niece (beautiful) – go by my mother’s – her birthday, sick with the flu, weak and out of breath –…
Everytime I think the stress of my job is too much to take and I would rather use braun than brains – I have to think of this day that I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the LaLa to begin cleaning every square inch of it – I didn’t get a lot of square inches but I worked till 3PM and I feel like I was hit by a MACK…
For the last six years I have worked with a woman of incomparable beauty and brains and now, sadly, she is leaving me and my company for new horizons. So sad for me/us. I can’t even write about it without welping up. So I wrote a haiku about her: What is it with her? She is trying to tell me Wait, she now talks Smurf!
Found a new place for after dinner cocktails – Evangeline on Toulouse and N. Murat – it’s in my hood and it wasn’t Pal’s (with it’s smoky weird crowd) and it wasn’t Ralph’s (with it’s smoky Yat crowd). I can’t remember the owner’s name but G and I had run into him at Ralph’s a while back and he told us about his new place. I spoke to a guy there who has spent every…
Walking around the bayou yesterday morning I noticed how stark it looks – the trees have dropped their foilage, the grass has turned that brownish color, even the water in the bayou seems grayer. Winter is finally here in New Orleans, even though I still can barely wear Polartec.