K, my carpenter, called from Atlanta, where he went for Thanksgiving. He said he was standing in the midst of a forest and wanted to cut down a big old Christmas tree for me and bring it back to New Orleans for me to put in the LaLa. I said that’s very nice of you, but I’m Jewish, I’ve never had a Christmas tree.
A week ago when I was speaking to my mom I said well the baby naming is at 6:15PM so you don’t have to worry about getting off of work. She said, “I am hoping I can be there.” I said, what?, you better be there. We’re having a double baby naming for my two great nieces that were born within five weeks of each other. In the equal opportunity new Jewish life, girl’s get…
Mom won a bike in a raffle. Since she’s not going to ride it and I wanted a spare for visitors, I told her I’d take it. The hitch was I had to drive to Raceland to get it. When mom evacuated with her patients during Katrina, she slept on a floor with 20 of the 120 rerouted to a facility in Houma. The nursing home was in Harahan and it was destroyed. So the…
Woke up to that Eli’s Coming feeling and so laid in the bed with the pillow over my head. The house, the house, the house. Here it is the last few miles of the house marathon and I’m starting to limp. I want to get in the truck and head straight to Guadalajara and don cut offs and open beer bottles with my key ring. And start smoking again. So I tossed and turned and…
I had an inner debate going on after sort of embarrassing myself the other night – I wanted to apologize to the person I was with because I felt a little, well, untoward. E suggested I apologize to myself instead. So I thought about what I really was feeling and decided I have nothing to apologize to anyone for, but I would forgive myself for not behaving as I would have liked to under the…
I had the BEST day with my family! My oldest brother and his five daughters and six grandchildren and my youngest brother and his entire family were in town and we had the most awesome time together. My sister-in-law, Kim and I took the new great nieces, Abby Lane and Rease, out in their strollers and walked up and down the front porch, back and forth, a million times, because there are no sidewalks in…
Last night, my oldest niece who has an issue with me ever since she found out about the affair called to tell me not to bring the Bean to the Thanksgiving meal – she said there were too many dogs there already and the babies. “No hard feelings, right?” “Right,” Rachel responded through thin lips. So this morning I walked the Bean a good long walk and ran into Gomez and told him about my…
So last night G and I went to Le Petite Grocery because Martha makes the best damn cosmopolitan in this city. We ran into G and J, a handsome couple obviously in love. I told G that I had had my nineteenth nervous breakdown about the LaLa and had called my mother – who responded like a mother for a change and calmed my nerves. And G entertained me with men stories. Then we went…
If you haven’t read Alan Richman’s article in GQ about New Orleans and our cuisine, then maybe you should, simply so you can laugh in the face of the pompous man who wrote it. Here is an excerpt: New Orleans has always been about food and music, with parades added to the mix. (In the North, where I come from, we like to think we’re about jobs and education, with sports thrown in.) Puhlease –…
It’s just possible that getting enough sleep, not having any cocktails, and catching up on all your reading may be bad for you – because when all the rushing stops, all of those little players in your mind that you have benched for the time being suddenly all want to be the starring quarterback in your show. It’s exhausting – the battle royal waged in one’s own mind. I saw E this afternoon and she…