I was making my way through the security line at the New Orleans Airport and the TSA guard was unusually jocular and entertaining. The lady in front was going to Pennsylvania and he said something to her about a long way to go for not much. When I got up to him, he looked at my boarding pass and with furrowed brow he said, “El Lay? But why?”
These are definitely some interesting times. I think about the 80s, when my brother was called a criminal genius by Forbes for his participation in the Savings and Loan scandal. I think about the 90’s and facing 20 year olds driving Hummers and buying up real estate for millions of dollars more than it was worth and then the subsequent collapse – the dot.com bomb. Here we are in the 2000s and has the party…
Even though I live in the South I flinch at the “n” word – that’s right I rarely hear it – even when I heard the main character in Trouble the Water say it repeatedly, I flinched. Lately, I’ve been physically ill over the Obama jokes that have been spread over the internet. One is Obama going to heaven and God asks him how he enjoyed his presidency and he said, hard to say, it…
I was reading a book review by a writer who spoke about how in the ’80s there were those who went into the finance type careers and they were considered “sell outs” – and I was thinking about myself and my long career in this industry. A Peruvian author said money can’t buy happiness but it buys something awful close. People outside of the industry think us inside of it do this for money and…
I think I’ve written about this before, but headed out West to the dry air climate that everyone loves to rave about. Dry air has an appeal. Humid air feels hotter, feels colder, feels like you can’t breathe, messes with your hair. Right now the humidity is so thick here in New Orleans you could cut it with a knife. The sky is dotted with black and grey clouds, thunder in the background, one of…
J came by this morning on her motorcycle, glowing – she’s in love! I was speaking to a friend about other friends in a long-term relationship – new couples like to hear about couples who have lasted – mid-term couples are always threatened by breakups – everyone wants to have what they believe is going to make them happy – sometimes happiness is a lover and sometimes not (wise women know how to tell before…
Today woke in my bed with the realization that I was headed to San Francisco – a city that is so beautiful, everyone always says, “you’re lucky” you get to travel there, live there, etc. But I woke this morning and though I was looking forward to the trip, my first thought was how much I love my bed, and my next thought was how much I want to soak in my tub, and the…
Years later, the saying changes to Visit the West, then go home to the South, wiser woman.
How many ways to say I love you to T on her birthday? Yesterday, was our eight month anniversary, as well as day two of 150 miles of bike riding (ouch), but we woke in a pine forest by the lake and I know I was happy, nay thrilled, she was born! What a difference eight months make? Last year, for the bike ride, I was ending confusion about one person and starting confusion about…