I spent the better part of today on the sofa with my leg raised above my heart and believe me, it worked, the throbbing eased and my foot felt normal. I had a DVD of a fireplace playing on the television and was reading The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford – who is going to be here for the Tennessee Williams Festival. I fielded phone calls from friends and all of our conversations…
We got a table outside at La Vita and I hoisted my foot up. During the course of the evening, we held court amongst our neighbors and friends. At the table next to us was a woman, M, who had married D, and was on her honeymoon in Italy when Katrina hit. Her almost grown daughter S was in Baton Rouge at the time. And the questions turned to what happened to their dog –…
Swirl was hopping last night and I got a bottle of grenache and sat in the window with my foot up. A – a doctor – said I need to elevate my foot above my heart to heal and to get it to quit throbbing. There was a bevy of women standing around a dog outside – a white dog with big red spots and a happy face. One of the women had found the…
There is a lot of music happening around town tonight – and there is always Swirl in midcity – but my foot is throbbing – and I can’t stand and barely can sit without having it up for long – so I think G and I are headed to La Vita for a salad and some wine to sit outside and enjoy this beautiful weather. It’s going to be 80 degrees tomorrow! Spring came and…
This gorgeous woman was talking about the fact that she is naturally brunette but one time she colored her hair blonde and men just came out of the woodwork. I was telling Maria – my hairdresser – about this and said the woman was much prettier brunette – and she said it’s stupid but true. Gentlemen prefer blondes. Anyway – Maria is great – if you need a blow out in New Orleans or anything…
There has been this trend item flowing through most every magazine or news article I’ve picked up lately. It says you shouldn’t drink any wine or alcohol because it makes you fat. Since I’ve been challenged recently because of my foot and challenged in life because of my body type, I’ve been harping and carping about giving up alcohol in order to get my midriff slimmer. TL lost tons of weight from his Lent abstinence…
I was speaking to one of my sources today and he said he was on his way down here for Jazz Fest – the second weekend – but he was coming early to help out with Habitat for Humanity. What a great organization – they have done so much for this city – we are forever indebted to the thousands of volunteers – a lot of young people – who have come in and slept…
My loan officer told me today that she almost didn’t come back after the storm – said she couldn’t face it as she lived in Lakeview and the entire area was so devastated. Turns out her house wasn’t. She was close to the lake and high enough up that by some miracle her house was spared and so were a few others on her block, while the rest of the area was close to gone.…
How is it that this beautiful woman adopts the most beautiful babies? Her new little one, Pax, is a doll! What a great name.
You know what I told B when he came by the other day to help me hang my African wood carving on the porch? He said wow, I can’t believe you got all this to come together. I said, well wow, let me tell you what I learned about myself – a lesson to the wise – I have qualties in me that were brought to the forefront perforce – they are endurance, preseverance, and…