There is this new agey thing going around or that has been around that I am just hearing about. I have this ache in my back and a doctor in California told me after my bone density test that I have slight arthritis in my lower back, which she said is common for women of my age – I told this to my masseuse here in New Orleans when my back was getting into a…
There is still work to be done but right now, I’m looking outside into the hot, humid day of summer here in the Crescent City and my thoughts are on TGIF! – Wow, it’s great to be back – and wow, I had a great time – but bow wow as Loca would say – I am so HAPPY it’s Friday, I could spit!
Two Poems Spring My feelings just took a turn for the better While thinking of white flowers turning into strawberries, Of clover turning into bees, of crowds of wisteria Swelling and swelling. People often think I have a friendly dog, but it is just me: My wide arm-span for folding tablecloths, my feet that seem worn Not just by me, but many. I had this feeling once before, when I was walking through rain And…
I came home with so many goals and plans for a new way of life – I don’t want to die at my computer with my headset on and IM and Skype pinging across my computer screen. But alas today from 7AM to 6PM guess what I was doing? So tomorrow is another day – I fell off the eel wagon and need to get myself back on. Unlearning 49 years worth of bad habits…
Yesterday, as my mother lay in bed moaning and I searched her crammed drawers for the brace she insisted was in there, the television was tuned to some talk show like Springer or Montel or the like and a woman was featured who was some sort of psychic and one of the guests asked, “My boyfriend was gunned down in a drug transaction and I was wondering if he left a will,” – “NO!” the…
Walking Loca this morning, we detoured from our norm and decided to take a tour of the bayou. On our way back, we passed part of the Holy Rosary convent and in front, where one slight nun tends her daisies, I noticed the fence was being repainted from black to sumptuous red. I wondered which saucy sister had whatnot in her mind as she selected the new color. And I thought of the nuns I…
News of Hurricane Dolly ratcheting to a Category 1 and watching the downpour today made me a little uneasy. May we get through this hurricane season unscathed, unevacuated, and underwhelmed by the predictions of doom.
Wow – there are ducks all over the place around here – usually the litters don’t all make it but I’m seeing adolescent ducks like crazy. At the same time, I’m working hard to get my ducks in a row around here. I went to my mother’s to look for her brace since she cracked a rib when she tripped over Arlene. My mother’s apartment is the antithesis of T’s mother’s – you could eat…
I have thus far been able to manage my first day back at work by taking ten minutes between actions to breathe and pee. But of all the things that I am taking note of the large picture ones are this – my mother’s health and mind are deteriorating (this was glaring on re-entry), Arlene’s aging process is accelerating rapidly, my good friend’s daughter is possibly terminally ill, my other friend’s mother is as well…
New rumors flying about an alligator in the bayou – folks think that this explains the sudden attrition in the nutria population – but what about the ducks is what I say – we have ducks galore!