I’m having a dinner party tomorrow. The guest of honor is not coming and that’s because he wasn’t given a chance – so sad, but what are you going to do? As I mentioned earlier, how you act comes back to haunt you time and time again. And so it is. I was sitting around planning my menu when someone suggested I get sandwiches so I don’t have to cook. Huh? The whole point of…
Thomas L. Friedman had an article in the Times Picayune this morning called “No closets for the skeletons on the internet.” He was writing about a book by Dov Seidman called “How.” Seidman’s thesis, according to Friedman is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever; because so many people can now see into what you do and tell so many other people…
I was committed to staying in last night as I still have work piled up that needs attention. But at 7:30 last night with a little coaxing from my friend who had just spent a bloody fortune to have her hair cut, colored, and highlighted, I had to rally for her hair. I mean, after all, you can’t just sit home with a great do. So we went to Byblos and along the way the…
1) Believe they are in denial 2) Don’t take it personally 3) Be very aware of your affinity for alcoholics (we all love what we know) 4) Be there for emergencies 5) Don’t indulge their delusion – talk facts 6) Don’t accuse them or make them feel bad, and don’t let them accuse you or make you feel bad 7) Don’t be embarrassed – you’re not the one making a mess of your life and…
I sent this email to someone today because I’m sick of the naysaying about New Orleans from people who don’t know jack shit about this city and what it was like pre Katrina and what it is like post Katrina: Dear […..] Re: Crime in New Orleans Can I tell you something – this is being horribly over reported in the press everywhere and to the detriment of New Orleans. Does New Orleans have a…
My LG phone started shutting down on its own and so I went to Verizon and they ordered a replacement phone ($50) and had it sent to my house. Meanwhile, it arrived day before yesterday and so yesterday I took the phone for them to transfer my phone numbers. Then that phone turned buggy and by morning wouldn’t even turn on. So I went back to Verizon and they said oh yeah, that model is…
The original Whole Foods spot on Esplanade and Ponce de Leone, the long time community grocery that had patrons the likes of Lenny Kravitz, has become a real source of contention for us in MidCity because the big Whole Food – the one that is supposed to be so community friendly, but who left the community stranded without a grocery in order to open two obscenely huge big box stores – sold the market to…
When I was separating from S and B was no longer going to work on the house and N was going to help me and all of that mess was going on, B made the comment that he didn’t want to work at this house because it was filled with bad vibes. Wow. Flash forward one and a half years, I ran into Gomez on the bayou this evening with his friends T&K and they…
I walked Arlene after supper tonight and as we crossed the Magnolia Bridge, we saw a group of people setting up chairs and pulling out of baskets – cheese, wine, bread, glasses – and it was a warm, breezy night with soft waves skimming the bayou – and all Arlene wanted to do was get back to the house.