Okay Myspace is addicting – it was so easy to add a slide show of my pics, a song I like, and the Dick in the Box video as my fav and I have been getting pinged by nephews and nieces, which is terrific. Anybody who hasn’t tried it, needs to get their profile on there. Meanwhile, I just read that Friendster is even better – because it has all these cool cool things you…
All of my nieces and nephews are on MySpace, so I signed up and have been communicating with them there. It’s interesting to see how they profile themselves. The pics of the girls are provocative and their wallpaper or video and music selections look like something out of a slam book from my day (okay let’s not talk about my day). Whatever it is, it’s pretty cool to go on there and see where young…
It started raining early today as if the sky were falling – June 1st marked the first day of hurricane season and this is the second or third big thunderstorm we have had where water comes down from the sky with a purpose. It’s pretty cool sitting up here in the tower and working while the lightning and thunder are all around me. Meanwhile, Arlene does not feel the same way – she has been…
From the I-10, you can see a half-naked man standing up in a boat with a fishing pole and a big smile on his face (and mine).
I took Dr. Ambrose’s history class at UNO and fell instantly in love with the man. And then I went on to read all of his books. When I moved to California, I ended up working with his niece who is also named Rachel. So it was with a heavy heart that issues surrounding his plagarism came up and then he passed without having his name cleared. It was good to travel the Stephen Ambrose…
Here in Atlanta, when I say I’m from New Orleans to the bartender, the person I’m asking for directions, the checkout woman at IKEA – they all ask about New Orleans – and I say – some good, some not so good. We’re coming back, better, but it is going to take time – we still have wide swaths of our land, culture, community that is blighted or laid to waste. I saw a billboard…
Last night at my nephew’s wedding, as everyone was getting ready to sit down and eat, my family did what they do best, they all poured onto the dance floor and started dancing. I don’t know what it is – the Latin in us – the energy in us – we have so much fun at these occasions. The night before my brothers had been goofing off and decided that they would invent a new…
Welcome to menopause, which is coming much earlier to women these days. No one knows why – our grandmothers went through menopause in their late fifties but women from 40 and up are going through it. There is a theory the hormones and antibiotics used in beef and milk are causing women to start their periods at younger ages like 11 and 12, maybe it’s also causing earlier menopause. Regardless, it’s another passage, that is…
My niece and nephew picked me up from Alice Ann’s and we headed to the rehearsal dinner – but we got there early so since we had nothing else to do, my nephew turned up the radio and we all three got outside the car and started dancing on the grass. There is no doubt we know how to entertain ourselves. Later at dinner – the family now having expanded two or three more layers…