It’s quite nutty to believe that anyone can feel a sense of permanence around these parts anymore. Get your house in order and risk the potential annihilation of a place? After Katrina, I think we’re all seeking some form of permanence, even though ironically we all know it can’t be found. We’re driving nails into buildings that are no more permanent than a blade of grass because the ground we are building on is on…
…unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty So again says Lady MacBeth – and I say to Armando today when he comes stalking the LaLa – no, you can’t come around here anymore. I helped you out but I don’t need your help – he was volunteering to work on the house for free. He tried to explain himself saying he was just stopping by but…
R dressed as Lady MacBeth with blood stains on her hands last night – she kept saying “out, spot, out” but the reference was perhaps lost on the witches, ghosts and goblins that inhabit the non literary world. It’s that blood on her hands that bugs me most – because when it is on MacBeth’s hands she says a little water will wash it out but when she sees her own hands bloodstained, she embodies…
I dressed up as a pirate to go to the neighborhood block party on L’s street. Turned out it was a heavy metal band (kind of) and a collection of people sitting on the front stoop of two houses, so we made our way back to the little party that was going on at V’s house across the street from L. R had joined us after dinner and we went to Pal’s and we went…
I went to the Bank and got the ball hinges – K will redo them – and now the world is happy that Rachel is not putting modern hinges into a 100-year-old house. The siding is almost finished but what is more impressive is the guest bedroom that my friend P is painting – it’s this red wash with a yellow ceiling. When I saw how pretty it is turning out, I told P it…
When I was a little girl living on Louisiana Avenue, I stepped on a caterpillar and was rushed to the hospital because I went into shock. Years later, in Atlanta, as a teenager, a bee stung me and my parents, a doctor and a nurse, went into shock that I might go into shock, so my father shot me up with Benadryl and he gave me so much in his panic, that I was slipping…
I ran into my ex-bro-in-law on the bayou this afternoon – the Bean and I got in the car with him and took him to the LaLa to show him what is going on. I haven’t seen him since pre-K when I first learned he was diagnosed with cancer, so it was good to catch up. We went back and forth on who’s nuts and who isn’t these days. He bought a house a few…
A while ago, we had a small grocery in Mid-City called Whole Foods – that was its name when Whole Foods out of Texas bought them. While the big Whole Foods was building out the bus barn Uptown, management continued to tell Mid-City that they wouldn’t close down the smaller store. So all was happy in LaLa Land. Then the big evil corporate Whole Foods suddenly said it was closing the smaller store because its…