Each morning, Arlene and I pass Cabrina playground – or Desmere Park – whatever you want to call it – but it’s where I used to take her to mingle with the other dogs and to play ball. She was a ball playing dog, that’s for sure. Then after Katrina, she developed a weird neurological issue that caused her to collapse when she over exerted. After costly tests including an eye specialist examining her, it…
A friend writes there is a band in her neighborhood called Blame it on the Dog. And there you have it. Do you believe in the concept that you put things out in the universe and they come back to you? I do – I was telling friends I was thinking of trading in Blue and getting a car and next thing you know my neighbor walks over and asks about my truck, asks to…
L & M stopped by to look at the decking material I used on the terrace – I described to them the three step process – torch down, then wood and metal steppers, then interlocking composite decking – all of it costing a fortune. We ended up just sitting around talking about running away to Mexico.
I bought some shelves and drawers at IKEA and Tom came over and put them together for me. We both marvelled at IKEA – the ability of them to make affordable, well designed, easy to put together furniture. I’m talking about paying $179 for a three drawer chiffarobe (as we call it here in New Orleans) and $129 for a 58×58 bookshelves that would easily cost $1000 to have made by any carpenter. For $38…
Last night, my mother insisted that some lying thief had rifled through her purse and taken her store credit at Dillards. When I suggested she might have misplaced it, her response was vehement: “I knew you would say something like this.” In between her sobs and vitriol, I tried to discern if this was an emergency call and decided it wasn’t and I needed to remove myself from her madness. I was telling Gomez about…
A friend of mine had a stroke ten years ago – when her daughter called to tell me, I just started crying immediately. Grace under pressure not me. Now the daughter has a daughter who has copious medical problems that are so opaque no one knows what is wrong and so today three doctor appointments deep, I was waiting for a debriefing when I got a call that mom #1 had experienced black outs and…
I can picture it now – me and the Bean in Blue pulling this from behind and living on the beaches of Mexico. http://www.dwr.com/airstream
I was listening to an NPR segment on the rise of violent crime. It seems that New Orleans is not undergoing it’s own particularly virulent strain of murders but instead murder rates and violent crime rates are on the rise in most major cities. Here is an excerpt from a Silence is Violence email: “As many of you know, yesterday the FBI released crime statistics for 2006 and the news was not good: New Orleans…
In the career life, most bosses like to see a married person as opposed to a single one. The reason is they know that person will most likely go to bed at a reasonable hour and will most likely not do something psycho like take off to Mexico. Well that was what most of married life was like – he worked, I worked – and without kids it was more like, he worked all the…
For a long time, science believed that the brain was hard wired and once encoded you had to deal with it or go to therapy or do whatever you could to overcome the code. But there is whole different school of thought that is all the rage and that is the plasticity of the brain. So you do hard wire experience, which then causes you to be attracted or repelled by the same things over…