After NO Magazine shot the house for the October issue – the writer asked if I knew any “men who garden” and I do. So I shot her a few names with some pics and lo and behold, she selected my neighbor. He works for Wildlife and Fisheries basically trying to rebuild all that man has destroyed. Meanwhile, they came to photograph him and his garden today and he said he felt a little odd.…
Just doesn’t cut it – I thought taking a week of getting stuff done and being sort of available for work would be a good idea, but I find myself more stressed trying to do it all because I scaled back work and escalated the personal “to do” list and now even some of that isn’t getting done and that’s stressing me out. It’s just like Lena Horne said, it’s not the burden that wears…
Last night at Del Forno – Fatma paired delicious small bites with Italian wines, which Antonio had selected, most from Sardegna – Beth had arranged the tables in a U-shape and I thankfully was sitting at the lively end of the group. The theme of the night was fun, food and friends, and that is exactly what it was. A lovely time was passed by all.
A friend of mine who works with cancer patients likes to remind me of all the reasons you should seek out and enjoy happiness. Don’t know if it is a Jewish thing or what, but sometimes when I am feeling overwhelmingly blessed, I grow concerned that I might not deserve this exponential happiness that is coming at me. Or else I feel the need to share the love. Today is case in point – I…
I was walking with K towards the party and we both kept stopping to speak to neighbors and it took about 45 minutes to go two blocks. We were laughing because a friend from New York had been here and commented on how friendly he is when he is in New Orleans and we’re like dude – it’s not about being friendly – it’s about engaging. That’s how we do it. We stop, we chat,…
Last night, I went to meet a new friend at Swirl and to walk over to the Night Out Against Crime party on Esplanade. It’s an annual soire held at a neighbor’s house. I was wearing my wish box – a locket that my sister gave me many years ago. People ask about it all the time. T was asking about it and I said, that a year and a half ago when I was…
Went to eat at a friend’s restaurant for lunch today and highly recommend it. It’s the usual fare of poboys but they do delicious salads as well – I had the blackened chicken salad with their homemade honey mustard – yum! A friend got the shrimp and another friend the oyster poboy – all yummy as well. K recommended the roast beef but I need to get that bathing suit on while I sail around…
Joe came by yesterday to cut the grass and we were talking about his nephew who he witnessed being stabbed in front of him over a dice game. Joe said he’s not the number one witness in the case. Who is, I asked. “The number one witness is a woman who was standing across the street.” I asked, “What makes her the number one if you were sitting right there and it’s your nephew?” “She’s…
A woman. Yesterday, one woman made a grown man cry when she said she didn’t believe that he had cut her grass three times while she was out of the country. The lack of trust in someone who has been doing that job for more than a decade made him very sad. Yesterday, one woman made a grown man cry when she sought to please everyone and ended up pleasing no one.
Every day is in the upper 90s and air conditioners are going out all over town trying to keep up. Mom called and her’s is out, so she is on her way over now to spend the night. Of course, it began with the drama call where she said she was passing out from the heat. Good grief.