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“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.” Of course, this quote comes to me out of the blue while I accidentally run across some old missives from a loved one. The discovery of the missives felt like someone was throwing acid on me, the quote only served to make the pain more of a cliche. But Kierkegaard was really such a boor and so why should…
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” –Annie Dillard, American author and Nobel Prize recipient  My dance card is filled to the brim these days – I’ve got something every night this week and have had something every night for a while now – so I guess I’ll sleep when I’m dead. My friend S writes to me that after her daughter left to go spend a week…
Yesterday, G called distressed over how things were turning out with B – I told her I saw warning signs written all over him – he has a rigid personality – now he has a lot of other things – he’s good looking, smart, informed, etc. – but the rigidity is what got me. Both G and I are opinionated but that opinion can be amorphous and slippery sometimes, not to say we won’t argue…
A couple moved in across the hall at the Can between H&J and H&T, they left a note on all of our doors inviting us tomorrow night to a 3rd Floor Happy Hour to say hello. A meet and greet. You gotta love it. Children in California are not raised to entertain but here in New Orleans it is what we do best and it is a lauded tradition handed down generations to generations. Uplifting…
I was listening to Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? – it’s funny because it starts with a fire and she says, is that all there is to a fire? And so we say here, is that all there is to a hurricane? Pish posh. I took the week off from work and it seemed like all I did was what I normally do – work and take care of the LaLa – you…
This from the senior editors of www.NOLAfugee.com = What we do believe is that New Orleans is, more than ever, the craziest place in North America. Last night G and I went to the Ogden and got caught up in the New Orleans sentimentality that was on display via Fred LaBlanc – if you are not familiar with the song he wrote after Katrina – The Avenue – you should check it out on Itunes.…
I recently met a woman who is a therapist – she is doing some continuing ed for her license and is in the thick of a six hour set of cd’s on brain science – she writes: …It is very interesting so far and is teaching me about how wondrous and fragile the brain is as well as how it affects behavior, thinking and personality when something goes wrong e.g. some trauma to the brain,…
Edwin Edwards told Bill Clinton that he should have responded to the whole Jennifer Flowers affair scandal when she declared she and Bill had had a torrid affair for twelve years that “that’s a lie in and of itself because no affair is ‘torrid’ after 12 years.” Ha, where was Edwards when the levees broke? We could have used humor along with competence. Boating on the Tangipahoa I marvelled at the graceful beauty of the…
I met TM last year at Jazz Fest but when we met again he couldn’t quite place me because I had on a pink wig then. He said, “I remember, I took a picture of you,” and I said no, you took a mental picture. I enrolled in his workshop this weekend because even though I respect and admire his jewelry, it was the model for a sculpture that drew me to enroll. Hard to…