Last year at Tales of the Cocktail I caught up with an acquaintance of mine who was flirting around with this guy I had never met. When I next spoke to her I asked her how it was going with him and she said, “Well, I’m not sure. I think we are cousins.” Fast forward a year later and she gets to the party last night with this same guy in tow and so this…
The LaLa was officially house warmed last night and a lovely time was had by all, including me. Anne Churchill from Karma Kitchens did the food and it was very tasty – smoked trout mousse, lamb with kaffir dipping sauce, oyster mushroom pate – a bunch of yummy selections. Beth Ribblett from Swirl did a cheese selection that was dynamite with bread from Le Boulangerie. She also selected some good wines – Crios rose, Peachy…
Today is already in full swing with party prep – last night when I was hauling yet another box in, I thought about my mantra to ask for help and yet it was too late to call anyone. This morning same thing. I need to work on these skills. I was walking Arlene and Loca around the bayou and when we got to Bell Street I saw a young girl with a big boxer who…
I was getting a pedicure at the salon and talking to the girls and E was relaying to me an intertwining story that if I didn’t know better I would have thought was made up. She and friends and the kids were at the house playing Clue when she saw some kids across the street fooling around on her neighbor’s porch. She went downstairs and rattled the iron gate. They couldn’t see her because she…
I walked Arlene and Loca around the bayou then dropped Arlene off and took Loca for a longer walk through City Park. The graceful herons were out in abundance in the lagoon and Loca was content to walk beside me and not investigate. I thought about my emotional state lately and the memories that have flooded my waking thoughts and decided to put things in perspective. I got this far in life without having my…
I went to see L – mistress of massage – and told her I needed an attitude adjustment – I’ve been melancholy when I should be walking on sunshine – she said she had just the thing for me. First she ran her hands up and down my back, strongly applying pressure to my spine, my hips, down the backs of my legs, deeply kneading the soles of my feet and then back up the…
This morning R saw me and said, “I love that you always have that smile.” Well, if he knew what was behind the smile, perhaps he’d know just how much that smile means. Last night when Vanessa sang a waltz her mother had written years ago called I’m in trouble again, I had to leave the Ogden because I got all welped up and then knew I wasn’t going to be able to stop the…
I was speaking to a photographer who has been doing a lot of New Orleans stories lately and her last was about bounty hunters that she said had her going into areas and filming the poorest parts of this city. She said the poor were barely hanging on here before and now they are even worse. She said this is the story that doesn’t come out about New Orleans now. And I thought great –…
I was emailing back and forth with a source of mine – he is top dog at a media firm in New York and happens to be in New Orleans this weekend and is coming to my party – we go way back, when I first started covering media and he was just a director then not a big ole VIP like he is now. He told me “you’re a dangerous girl” in his last…
Gal Holiday was at the Ogden last night playing to a happy crowd of people who were swaying and smiling to her sunshine sound. The doorman told me we should clear the floor and all dance. It was a nice pick me up as yesterday was another day where I was glued to my computer multitasking beyond human capacity and trying to carve out a moment to think about the bigger picture and my place…