Month: May 2007

excerpted from the NYT this morning: An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group “trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment” to avoid “making waves.” Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential “will expand exponentially over an employee’s working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.” Justices John Paul Stevens,…

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Work – work – work Is that all there is?

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M told me as Jake and I were pulling out that he had not had a nap and he had been difficult after being home from school all day. I said are you kidding? I have dealt with adults all day that make me want to pull my hair out – Jake is a dreamboat. Cute, funny, and sings Avril Lavigne’s GIRLFRIEND at full blast with me in the car, loves the color red because…

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The other day I took Jake for a bike ride and to get snowballs on Plum Street. He got Rainbow (a mix of flavors) but quickly usurped my sugar free Spearmint. But we hung out on the bench and I marvelled at how unselfconscious he is and how he will speak to just about anybody and everybody! So while I was cleaning up the mess, he started talking to this woman with short blonde hair.…

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Ray Nagin wins the first annual Dangermond Lack of Leadership award – this Wednesday, May 30, Mayor Nagin will present his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina and the flood. The address will begin at 6:30pm at the National D-Day Museum. Almost two years since Katrina and Rita – Nagin rears his incompetent head and proves that bad leaders happen to good communities.

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The theme of Super Sunday was “By Any Means Necessary” – that is what the determined Mardi Gras Indians – greatly diminished post Katrina – said about keeping to their tradition and performing this year. We saw Chris Rose on the bayou, mulling around – another reminder that my “Chris Rose is Dead 2 Me” book is missing since I moved into the LaLa – and G went over to speak to Chris – we…

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I went to have dinner with mom who looked tired and is tired from the long hours she’s working in Raceland. Ever since Katrina she feels compelled to be a martyr and work beyond her capacity. As I was getting the groceries out of the car N, K’s son, called to me from the bayou where they were sitting. I said hi and went about my business – not wanting to go back into that…

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Sitting up in my office trying to do some work on this Memorial Day I hear the Vegetable Man going down the street calling out “I have mirlitons. I have tomatoes. I have squash. I have watermelon.” He hasn’t been around in a long while.

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I went for a long bike ride yesterday morning and was able to examine then file away several things that have been at the forefront of my mind. The list: 1) The things that make you a stronger person hurt like hell. 2) Any day that I am not appreciative and grateful for my life is a dark day. 3) People see what they want to see in you – but no one ever knows…

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When I lived in Marin, I was speaking to a police man one day telling him how safe I felt in our neighborhood and how I left the backdoor unlocked. He said, do me a favor and don’t do that. He said most every crime is a crime of opportunity – a thief sees an open door or window, a rapist sees a woman alone, a burglar sees a target unaware – and he made…

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