My roadtrip is being delayed by a faulty alternator. S is on her way back to SF and I’m left to recover from a fun packed weekend – maybe the alternator saved me. Saturday morning we did the Misery Tour – went over the Claiborne bridge, to the left the barge is now removed and the walls rebuilt. Turned in and drove the blank streets then right on Caffin all the way down to Fats…
Here’s a P-K success story – C, a darling cutie pie who owns Filly, was sitting in her store when L walked in. He moved here from the Midwest P-K – gotta love anyone who is moving in PK – anyway first comes love, let’s skip marriage, now C&L are getting a baby carriage – I ran into her last night outside Cafe Brazil 4 months pregnant! They are adorable. Last night, I picked up…
I went to Martin’s uptown to get G some eau de vie – that’s her favorite after dinner drink – well everytime she asks for it, no one knows what she is talking about so I did some research and turns out eau de vie is simply a clear distilled liquor and here we know it by Pear Williams, Cassis or Kirsch. But the equivalent is Grappa in Italy. Anyway, I asked Martin’s when they…
Yesterday early evening the Snake called and said do you want to see Spike Lee’s documentary and I said yes and within five minutes was in the car with K and D and him on our way to the Arena to watch the premiere of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts” – a four hour documentary that Spike did immediately following the hurricane. I highly recommend and urge you to watch it…
Exodus: H&T came over last night with G&B after we had been at Sip for Tuesday’s Sip & Spin – it was Summer of Love theme – turns out on the third floor, R down the hall with the adorable dog, Huey, has bought a house and is moving out by end of September. Directly across from me H&J are moving to their new house end of September. And now, H&T are more determined than…
Last night I dreamed I was having lunch with an old friend and her mother and new daughter and she told me that she “cries every day” and I said “so do I” and then she lost it and said angrily “if he winds up with you I will never speak to you again” and I calmly looked her in the eye and said “you never have to worry about that happening.” Today sitting at…
“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.” Of course, this quote comes to me out of the blue while I accidentally run across some old missives from a loved one. The discovery of the missives felt like someone was throwing acid on me, the quote only served to make the pain more of a cliche. But Kierkegaard was really such a boor and so why should…
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” –Annie Dillard, American author and Nobel Prize recipient  My dance card is filled to the brim these days – I’ve got something every night this week and have had something every night for a while now – so I guess I’ll sleep when I’m dead. My friend S writes to me that after her daughter left to go spend a week…
Yesterday, G called distressed over how things were turning out with B – I told her I saw warning signs written all over him – he has a rigid personality – now he has a lot of other things – he’s good looking, smart, informed, etc. – but the rigidity is what got me. Both G and I are opinionated but that opinion can be amorphous and slippery sometimes, not to say we won’t argue…
A couple moved in across the hall at the Can between H&J and H&T, they left a note on all of our doors inviting us tomorrow night to a 3rd Floor Happy Hour to say hello. A meet and greet. You gotta love it. Children in California are not raised to entertain but here in New Orleans it is what we do best and it is a lauded tradition handed down generations to generations. Uplifting…