The LaLa
This is after two years and one month of renovation.
Month: June 2007
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Blue Dog
This is Arlene – but everyone thinks she is the Blue Dog of folksy art fame here in New Orleans. She’s a Cardigan Welsh Corgi and her ears should stand straight up and her eyes should both be brown – and if she were best in breed she might actually look more like the Blue Dog – instead she is, simply, the Best Dog Ever.
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Surf’s Up
Took the J-man to the movie and was glad to be away from the family issues, away from the demands of work, away from having to smile and chat with everyone and anyone, and so I sat laughing at the penguins and the Hang 6, and the cool music. I think I enjoyed the movie more than Jake. Then we came out and a monsoon was sweeping across the planet outside, blowing the palm trees…
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Grateful for the little things
Got home from the hospital after midnight – fed the Bean this morning when she was supposed to fast to go in for her teeth cleaning – and so the morning was going a little sideways. I ran into C who wanted to see the garden but instead of being gracious I was rushing her – then as I came back out the front door to finally walk the Bean, the Bayou Stone Fox was…
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My mother has failed me
Eight hours of holding my mother’s hand, calming her that she was going to be all right, waiting for a catscan, an EKG, bloodwork, chest xrays to be evaluated so that the medical profession could tell me she has cancer, emphysema, heart problems, alzheimer, COPD – something to explain why she has been so confused, stumbling around, dropping objects, vomiting, lethargic – waiting and waiting for the results till at midnight I was curled up…
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Our Healthcare Has Failed Us
If any candidate can even take us in baby steps towards a new direction in our health care – it would be a great and noble thing to do. Our healthcare system right now is fraught with the same apathy and misdirection our education system finds itself at. My mother is driven home from her work with the “classic symptoms of a heart attack” – her doctor tells her to take two aspirins and call…
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Fairview and other charming icons of the past
Down to the right of the LaLa near Dumaine is an old mansion called Fairview – which looks like a haunted house it is so dilapidated. Turns out someone has bought it but despite the fact that when they first bought it they cut back the weeds, the weeds are back up almost blocking the view of the house again. Last night on the bayou for a glass of wine and neighborly visit, there was…
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Depression and you (or me)
After a weekend of very disconcerting visits with my mother – lethargy, crying, lightheaded, dropping and breaking objects – I finally had a talk with her cardiologist today who thinks that these physiological issues could be related to her depression. She is scheduled to see her neurologist today and hopefully there is a prescription of antidepressants on the way too. My sister’s problems are causing my mother’s suicidal tendencies to be full blown – the…
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And God said, LET THERE BE RAIN
Good grief, after a sleepless night of neighbor nightmares – dreamed the Martins were holding flashlights to my windows and ripping my electrical wires off. I woke to water J’s plants and give my plants there extra dose of watering since they are all still new. And then shebang – the sky opened up and we are having the most dramatic, lightning, thundering, driving rain ever. It almost makes me want to curl back up…