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Rode my bike this Easter morning to West End – I haven’t been able to get through there since the storm but it’s an area that I have had an affinity for through the years. As you come around the corner of West End Park boats sit on top of boats and restaurants have evaporated into the water. Brunings, Fitzgerald’s, Maggie’s, all gone not necessarily because of Katrina – first it was because of the…
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. So says Lena Horne. And that could be said about New Orleans and how she is carrying herself after the storm. There are odd things that happen here like C’s $20 bills all being counterfeit and the ink running when she placed them on the copper bar, or the stripper who could speak to the parallels of the tsunami and the…
Here is my horoscope for today, which I include because it is pertinent: There may be a comfortable place between serving others and being selfish. Your sweetness inspires you to act in a selfless manner, but you have the common sense to realize that you must also take care of your own needs. Avoid getting swept up in a cause, unless it is a personal issue that is close to your heart. And speaking of…
On the phone with my media sources who are saying we are at a tipping point with advertising spending because there is a saturation going on with industry and media and no one is expecting any kind of robust growth any more. Oh joy. It used to be that you could look at media and it was a harbinger or a yardstick by which to measure the economy – and in doing so right now…
the true question is are you being played? I had a convo with a male friend about certain females he knows and whether they are playing him or not – one sends nutty text messages that are very provocative but says she just wants to be friends, another wants to be taken out to dinner but not kissed – it seems a little suspcious. I remember telling a man that I feared he was playing…
What do you do when rhetoric from a dear friend begins to be overlayed with misogynist themes and when you ask this person to stop this kind of talk with you, he tries to insinuate you are the one pulling the themes out of context and in the same breath, professes that “all of his men friends believe” this way therefore there is truth to these themes. What if you are in your forties and…
So in all their infinite wisdom Bell South decided to rewire all of Midcity thereby keeping us without landlines till most likely August. Then they took it upon themselves to take control of the end of the neutral ground on Ursulines and Hagan – Ursulines being one of the, if not the, most beautiful street in Midcity – they ripped out jasmine that had been growing there for decades and was perhaps the largest jasmine…
Windy day and shaky bike ride in the morning to start the day. I ran into M walking around the bayou – his much needed exercise to assuage the problem ticker. L and I argued over the same argument and finally he said we exorcised it once and for all. Let’s hope so. I went on errands that took me here and there – paint samples for the LaLa to show S when he comes…
E was right – I do not take risks – a history of having a man to cling to as I am finishing with the man I am with. There are things about yourself you may not like to hear, but they are worth knowing. G left for Knoxville trying to run from a truth she sees in herself because she does not know how to get around it or fix it. I figure I…
This morning I went downstairs to see a dark ominous cloud hanging over the Can and I walked quickly to catch up with N and just a few steps away the sky broke open in this wondrous blue with white sharp rays coming from behind fat puffy clouds – N said, “when I went to catechism as a child those were always the pictures of god – as in Tennesse Williams’ god comes quickly” –…