Year: 2008
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Rainy day Monday
Woke this morning to grey skies and rain. Loca and I tried to walk anyway but were quickly soaked despite rain gear. A pall hangs over the sky that is greater than the weather. On Saturday, Abby, who has been hanging on with a will of steel started faltering again as the tumor came back. Of all the things you could wake up on a Monday and contemplate, the death of your daughter should not…
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A ride through the unfamiliar terrain of the North Shore
MS sponsored a training ride through Tammany Trace and the back roads in Tammany Parish. Our route took us along horse farms and rolling hills. I noticed a preponderance of lawn statues – Jesus, angels, Virgin Mary’s, rabbits, dogs, deer, and birds and even a bouquet of flowers, not to mention horses – stone statuary is all the rage on the North Shore. We ride almost 62 miles and my roadkill count is: 2 dead…
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Party season reopens officially
In the last weekend, there were overlapping parties and I realized that the season is getting off to a little bit of a late start because Hurricane-interuptus. A friend observed that there is some trend going on – Hit Louisiana first, Hit Texas (Katrina then Rita) and three years later (Gustav then Ike). Officially, we’ll have the party of the year on November 30th when hurricane season shuts down for one year.
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Musings on family
For years and years, I’ve longed to create a family. Now one would really have to wonder why I would want to do anything like that considering my family, but you know how it goes, it’s almost an urge that has no logic. I came back to New Orleans in 2005 thinking I was coming back to be close to my family only to realize my family is moribund. My brother told my mother that…
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The narratives we create to keep us from getting bored
Last night, I was speaking to someone and realized I had confused what she said in her email and thought she meant she was pregnant. From that misunderstanding, I created an entire backstory about when she got pregnant and why. So when she said, no I was calling you baby, not saying I am with baby, I just had to laugh. Today at lunch at Houston’s on Vets with mom, she said she had something…
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The aftermath of our latest round of hurricanes
I went to get gas today and the Shell Station at Causeway and Vets was out of most gas. Then I went to the Shell Station on Moss and Esplanade and the electricity was out. Finally found a Chevron that looked like it might have both gas and electricity and the credit card services was out. Blech.
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Night of a 1000 Turks
Okay, maybe it was more like 10 Turks who came to Swirl to celebrate the end of summer abroad and a return home to our own little oasis in the world – the electricity had been out all day and so the event was held with generators and candlelight and a boom box playing Turkish dance hits. So nice to have our little extended family grouped together again even as a storm brewed in the…
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The news is nothing
Ike is losing steam and I still can’t get news from NPR or wunderground about how much damage it did to Galveston, and it was a bad storm, but was it the bad ass storm everyone was making us think it was.