Waited till mid morning to take Loca to the park and the day is absolutely stunning. The little bit of fall color that goes on display here is best seen inside the park along the lagoon. I love to watch the coots chuking along the water, and the Great Egret, the immature Cormorants sitting up in the tree, the lonely rail, the moorhens, the mallards all seem to have found paradise, just like me. The…
For all of us who always thought we would get pregnant at some point, the question is always when is the best time to have a baby? Since I waited till I was 40 years old to try, I feel like marching into colleges across the country and talking to women about the notion of them having it all – it just ain’t so. If you want to have your own child, you cannot wait…
Monday night look up into the night sky and behold a rare wonder – a crescent moon and two bright shining stars that are actually Venus and Jupiter.
Deep sorrow for the families who lost a loved one in Mumbai during this horrible tragedy. Here, Abby is still missed. You pick up the pieces and you move on. Right? The bells of Cabrini are ringing and so it is time to shut down and enjoy Saturday night. As Flower always tells me, hope dies last.
If anyone wants to know – we’re ready. Good friends who think they have something to tell us that we might not already know have told us that a child is going to change our life. Really, we say, trying to be considerate but thinking to ourselves, why, we never thought of that. We have gone over and over and over in our minds the pros and cons of being a parent and the one…
I got irked recently when my mother turned at the table and said, “I know you, Rachel.” She had just said I am easily repulsed. Which I don’t believe I am. “I know you,” she said, as if to imply, better than you know yourself. Since T had the fur covered peach slice incident at the ready, it was easy to concur. But honestly, one or two incidents does not make a label. In a…
Recently, New Orleans was awarded the (dis)honor of having the highest crime per capita of any U.S. city. Last night, at Swirl, a friend was talking to my friends visiting from Atlanta, she had recently moved back to New Orleans. She said, “Yes, Atlanta’s a functioning city, but it’s good to be home.” Ah, home, crime ridden but lovable. This morning after breakfast at Dizzy’s – eggs, grits and fried catfish – my friend said…
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers By JACK HEALY and ANGELA MACROPOULOS A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers on Friday.
How could we not be connected in these global times to every event, every city and citizen who suffers? Mumbai – my colleagues recently held a conference there, in a country that I dream about but have never visited, and now Mumbia is in peril. Damn these terrorist to hell – with so much in the world to worry about, young punks wrecking senseless havoc on people who were living their lives – very sad,…
We opted for a small gathering this year for Thanksgiving and it was a long and lovely day. The weather was superb. I woke up and walked Loca into the park where the Turkey trot was underway. She and I ran into Sangi, Loca’s new best friend, and the two dogs tripped the light fantastic in and out of the lagoon, terrorizing anyone near who wanted to stay dry. Then home again, where T and…