L called today about a friend of ours who is making what appears to be a wrong headed decision – getting married when she has DOUBTS – did I capitalize that? – I meant to, she has doubts, not the usual ones, the BIG ones. What goes on? I told him that in 1989 when he knew I was getting married to my second husband and making a BIG mistake, could anyone have told me…
There is a man I’ve met a couple of times here at the Can – the first thing that caught my attention about him was his voice – incredibly deep voice – and the next was that he is English – and so he flirted and I flirted and then I found out he was married with a toddler girl and I quit flirting back. I hadn’t seen him for a while but since my…
My new neighbor called to see if I wanted to get dinner yesterday. He’s new here and he didn’t know the water out there was a bayou. I laughed. Anyway, he said he used to visit New Orleans when he was in law school in Baton Rouge but that it seems now everyone he comes in contact with seems to have been deeply affected by the storm. Well, most were deeply touched before the storm,…
Got an SOS call this morning from my contractor that the cabinets were 5″ too long because somewhere someone forgot the fillers in the dimensions, so they have to cut off the back of the sink cabinet which is the L part and that will give them the room they need. Also, the den bookcases were supposed to meet in a corner but instead they will just not because the window seat doesn’t fit in…
I went by Gomez’s house to borrow a copy of Dusty in Memphis and was listening to it tonight as I went through last week’s newspapers. Music snob that he is, Gomez said, “listen, this is the kind of CD you listen to on Saturday or Sunday morning, or in the evening with a glass of wine, not one you play in the car.” He’s right – her voice is rich and soulful and the…
Directly across from my apt has been vacant since Henry and Judy moved to their new house in Metairie about a month ago and I’ve missed them. Our crowd here on the 3rd floor has been steadily shrinking with Ra’shad and Tiffany in their new house. The Wallaces having moved out last week. And H&T will be moving into their new house mid month. And John is out by end of the year. So I’ve…
Peter kept saying over and over – “so many cabinets” – in his Caribbean accent. Today K unwrapped them all and set them in their places. It’s amazing how small that kitchen just got with them in there. My ex brother in law, C, made the cabinets in Southern California. They were shipped here in the same truck that moved Steve back to California. There is a memory or backstory attached to everything in that…
The doctor changed mom’s blood pressure meds two weeks ago and she had a serious reaction to the new meds – she said it rendered her almost comatose. Through a few days of up and down, the doctor then prescribed that she take both the old med and the new one simultaneously. Which she didn’t want to do, I urged her to seek a second opinion, but in the end she is taking the two…
A friend in Southern California used to make jewelry and one of my favorite pair of earrings was from her – pearls dangling on a silver frame. Unfortunately, I dipped the whole thing in silver cleaner and stripped the luster right off the pearls. So I stopped in The Bead Shop on Magazine today and through some sort of surreal process wound up having the woman make a new pair of earrings right in front…
I went by Filly to take a photo of Cherith as I am half-ass documenting her pregnancy. I brought a Santa hat for her to put on for the photo. She was wearing a ruffly skirt down to the ground and had a velvet brown hat on – she is just a beauty to behold and with her stomach 7 months pregnant, the whole ensemble is so easy on the eye. Her bags and art…