A girlfriend of mine who has proven to be more adept at asking for what she wants from relationships than me sent me this: “Oprah once repeated something one of her guests said that sticks with me: When someone shows you who he really is, believe him!” The best lines in poetry from John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. The…
I just love Richard Russo – if only I would have read this passage from his Bridge of Sighs the other day, instead just like when I was in therapy, I had to get to it myself and then have it confirmed later: Odd, how our view of human destiny changes over the course of a lifetime. In youth we believe what the young believe, that life is all choice. We stand before a hundred…
Even though I went to bed early, I didn’t get up until 6AM and couldn’t get out the door till 6:30 – had to hurry to walk Loca so she wouldn’t be Loca and also stay out of the sun because of the sensitivity of my face. We hit the park when it was still slightly dark and I swear I saw an alligator in the lagoon. If it wasn’t, then it was four nutrias…
Article in the Times Picayune today says via a count of mail delivery, 86% of us are back in New Orleans. I don’t think so. I was at my dentist the other day and looking out the window to Lakeview and every house had a FEMA trailer in front of it. 86% – pishaw. That can’t be. But I’d like to think it was so.
A galfriend of mine was telling me about this guy she used to date, I know him now too, but she dated him about 15 years ago. She said, he is so cheap that if he was offered a grave for free, he’d dive in it. Swear to god, I could not stop laughing for about thirty minutes.
The other day speaking to my work husband over lunch, I told him about this chemical peel I was getting or was supposed to be getting but had gone to San Francisco instead and had to postpone and then I got home a day late and had to cancel and push till the next week. I was also telling him about my dating adventures and a new pair of shoes I had just bought in…
The temperature dropped thirty degrees here night before last and today, it’s like Norway outside – cold, grey, and blustery. It makes me want to stay in, but Loca wants out out out – she keeps scratching at the window whining and moaning as if someone is tormenting her to death, when all along I’m the one being tormented. My to do list runneth over and with little sleep, I decided to take things piece…
Early to bed, then not too much time later, my world turned upside down – or at least my stomach did – food poisoning? – something – all night wrangling with the devil and this morning, exhausted before I start. Loca didn’t get her walk and she has been LOCA! I didn’t get my sleep. House turned upside down. So much to do. Blech.
A long time ago, when I was working through my panic attacks about having returned to San Francisco when I wanted to be in New Orleans, I started a behavorial modification course that changed my life. Panic and anxiety disorder run rampant in my family among the women, and I learned that it is highly indexed towards Jews. Lovely. One of the things I learned is if you know what is going on in your…
A nice healthy lunch: 1 cup shelled edamame………239 calories 1/2 cup frozen corn……………115 calories 1/4 red onion, chopped………..17 calories 1/4 T olive oil…………………..25 calories Total calories……………………401 Here’s what you’ll find in a half-cup serving of shelled edamame: 120 calories 9 grams fiber 2.5 grams fat 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat (0.3 grams plant omega-3 fatty acids) 0.5 gram monounsaturated fat 11 grams protein 13 grams carbohydrate 15 mg sodium 10% of the Daily Value for vitamin…