This article appeared in the NYT magazine last Sunday – I read it and just said AMEN and it made me want to head to the land, start a farm, organize a movement, clean up our food source, buy only at the green market on Thursdays which has recently extended its hours to 7PM after all the kale and mustard greens I have bought there recently make Whole Food’s kale pale in comparison: October 12,…
We got in a debate the other night with people at a dinner party about who let the insane out of the institutions – there is one side that believes the conservatives did away with programs and there is another that believes the liberals were against being held without due diligence. Whatever the reason or the group that led to this undertaking – it threw the baby out with the bathwater and now there is…
There was a billboard in the airport that said no one says, it’s cancer, get over it, so why do they think you can get over depression? Beats me is what I thought – I come from a family history of depression – I’ve also seen it in families I have married into, been close to, and have experienced it in lovers, husbands, and well the list is endless. Usually the depression goes hand in…
The mystery of longing – I heard from a friend who longs for her lover, who is back with his other, safely tucked into the world of certainty. It’s not that I am a stranger to longing, and to longing for what or who I can’t have, it’s just that when you’re not doing it, it seems silly and stupid, but when you are doing it, it is omnipresent and eclipsing.
I arrived in Terminal 5 of JFK, Jet Blue’s new home. Last time I had anything to do with a Terminal 5 was Heathrow where I said goodbye to all my favorite dresses and my traveling hula hoop. I had to stop a couple of times because it was so bright and clean and colorful I couldn’t believe I was in JFK – the biggest funkhole on the planet. And then my head started hurting…
I’m leaving this sunny, seventy something degree weather to head to winter. May the heat be with me.
After Katrina, the first industry to reconnect with New Orleans was the film industry, when previously scheduled movies resumed shooting not too many months after we were able to get back in the city. That’s not to mention the many documentaries and films that were about Katrina. I met a woman today who does hair for the film industry – I love that Hollywood has decentralized and especially that they recognize the unique charm of…
I’ve often had people ask me how I could live in New Orleans, a backwater, a crime ridden, debauchery laden, hurricane target? And I say, easy. Right now I could make a list for you about the people, events, culture, music, food, landscape, but let’s just focus here on what’s important. As I write this, there are pelicans skirting the bayou and birds playing on a wire and it is 65 degrees. Yes, that’s write…
TV viewership is on the rise. Why the increase in TV viewing? The answer is simple: unhappiness. The study says the happier TV viewers are, the more time they spend reading newspaper and books and socializing. Oh, yeah — they also have more sex.
Getting ready to head to NY and Boston on a business trip and was gathering stuff together to pack and take. I saw an image on the news of snow storms and it made me cringe. Checked the weather – snow on Friday in NY, 26 degrees in Boston this morning – GADZOOKS! It was 60 degrees here in New Orleans and about 64 degrees inside the LaLa, on the nippy side for us. When…