Rouse’s was crazy packed with people restocking their fridges. My friend’s daughter is still holding on as if she helped her parents through the evacuation nightmare. My neighbor came over and propped up my Orchid tree that was listing after the storm. Bolognese sauce is simmering for T’s lunches this week. The garbage cans have bleach in them to get rid of the flies. Neighbors were sitting on the bayou sipping a beer this afternoon.…
When we were stuck in that horrendous traffic jam trying to get out of New Orleans for Gustav, T said if this is the sacrifice we have to make for living in New Orleans, then we can bear this. Similarly, a friend said today when he arrived home after fortuitously being out of the country for the whole evacuation event that he had read on nola.com where someone wrote: “this is the price for living…
By Gloria Steinem September 4, 2008 Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women — and to many men too — who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote.…
We’ve spent the last two days cleaning up the yard from Gustav, organizing the pantries from our moving in together for real, purging extra clothes, dishes, coats because we have too much, and all along the way, T and I negotiated what needs to be done based on our ability or desire to perform the task at hand. In Atlanta, someone asked us who does what in the house and we looked at her –…
Bam Bam – a damn good travel cat! Loca Negra – it pays to look good under stressful circumstances Rachel and Arlene – till death do us part Tatjana, Loca and mom – self portrait
Thank god we had the boys from California to help us board up the house – not only did they do a good job, but they looked cute too! I was putting the boards away under the porch yesterday and a guy walked by with his dog and asked me if I was putting them up or taking them down. Ha ha, I said, we’re not going anywhere. [Fuck Ike!] He offered to help me…
Went to get my hair cut by Scott (Jupiter Salon) and it was good to be back, with my hair stylist, and in New Orleans. Scott predicts the next hair do is a long shag, but more importantly he has come up with a new disease called R.F.S. He thinks the next big medication to come on the market will be an antidote for this syndrome. It happens mainly during the holidays but definitely during…
We’re all talking about getting a generator – that’s another business you might want to consider given this change in our weather system. But my take is this, the ducks, the geese, the herons, the swans did not panic, did not leave, so they know. Before Katrina the animals started leaving in droves. I’m going to pay more attention to nature and less to CNN and stay put here in my house if a storm…