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Big announcement: Abby Elizabeth was born yesterday and she is a doll! Buying girl’s clothes is far superior to baby boy’s clothes as evidenced by the Pink Safari layette I found right when I walked in the store. Six pounds and six ounces and a delight to hold even if she hasn’t shown any signs of wanting to eat yet. Small announcement: Paris Hilton has sworn off sex for one year. That would be Paris,…
Sitting outside in E’s beach shack in his backyard uptown drinking a sweetish Reisling, we talked about how we are living through interesting times – just think of this decade so far – 9/11, the Tsunami, Katrina, not to mention that we will soon see a power shift in Cuba, and all the lessons learned here will only be known as they are recollected in tranquility – so it will take another decade for us…
Read an interesting article about who will succeed Fidel, and interestingly enough news of the day is Fidel went under the knife – the article had a photo of Raul beside Fidel’s on the front page. Cuba – what will become of her? What will become of New Orleans? Inquiring minds want to know – I envision climbing out of the morass and a better day ahead. Let’s just get through this hurricane season. Was…
When I was living in Marin, my friend S came over with her daughter T and brought me a mechanized turtle that crawled and sang, “Slow down, you move too fast, you got to make the morning last.” Ha ha ha. Right. Most people associate me with rapid motion but recently someone told me that I move to fast figuratively too and it gave me great pause…barum bum. I was in Nantucket at the invitation…
Divorces are common post-Katrina – but this one is messier – it involved friendships and trust and broken hearts and love’s labor lost. Eternity was in our lips and yes, Bliss in our brows bent ………………………Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra Steve was the Antony to my Cleopatra, but he befriended a snake who used his charms to wound the whole lot of us as tight as possible and when havoc was sufficently wrecked across all lives,…
On 7/25/06 9:59 AM, H (who stayed during Katrina) responds: Rachel and all: I agree. T and I have said the same thing. The Can was and is an island as a result of Katrina and we wanted to stay close on this anniversary. I want to eat cooked food, drink cold drinks and use electricity on this anniversary… Playing devil’s advocate (this is almost literal) though, Ray is probably doing this celebration not for…
I asked T how come we haven’t heard from C Ray, she said, I was wondering the same thing, then G said she was worried because no one has heard from him. DOES NEW ORLEANS HAVE A MAYOR? – for all of you non-New Orleanians that felt sorry for us when he got re-elected: could you find our mayor for us? He has gone underground while our pumps are not working (that is a well-kept…
So the other night V and I were talking about the house next door to L, man of mystery. She said the woman now lives in back of her, in her double, and that she sold it because “her daughter slept with a black man and got pregnant” – V said she told the woman “You sold a whole house on account of that? Damn!” So I told V and A about when I was…
Friday at Sipping with 7 – as we made our way out of the first room (which turned out to be the best) I ran smack into the BSF – we ended up in line together in the next room, in the dark, waiting for Love Potion #9 – he is even more of a stone fox up close – oh my – his name is T and T is redoing his house on Taft…
Friday started off on the right foot – the delivery guy from Saia said he had no idea where MidCity was and could I meet him at Five Happiness – a character to the say the least, from the West Bank – the day continued in that fashion with an eldery woman asking me if I could check out her parking for her – and I felt like all day I was trying to spread…