It’s 70 degrees outside. There is going to be a burning raft floated down the bayou at some point this evening. They’re having a band on the court around the corner. I made two dozen blue devils (deviled eggs with blue cheese). I went to see E today for a mental health check and contrary to popular belief 2009 was not the worst year because Tin was born in 2009 but it came pretty close…
I had to run to Fairgrounds to get some focused time to finish a work project and a friend called. I said let me step outside to talk because I’m in a coffee shop. My friend hollered in the phone – step outside! – ha, where she is is very cold, where I am is fine with a polar fleece vest. As a matter of fact, it’s warming up this week – going to be…
When my mom was young, she had four little boys and two little girls and how she kept from going stark raving mad is impossible to know. But she did have a creative streak. We lived in an apartment on Louisiana Avenue Parkway and there was a big rotund water heater in our kitchen. My mom took a magic marker and drew a benign face and wrapped a frilly apron around it and called her…
I remember when mom was in the hospital she kept making a circular motion in the bed and telling the nurses she was making room for the baby. And she was. She left a big space in my life that a baby is filling up. In the meantime, everyone at the LaLa stopped their swirling motion of making room for a baby when the baby actually showed up – Gadzooks! It is quite amazing how…
My friend who is going to give Tin swimming lessons this summer said that the best introduction is to go into the water with him in my arms and don’t submerge him but just bond with him. Well, today I was taking a bath in our big tub and T1 brought T2 in and put him in the bath with me. And he just loves it – snuggles up against my chest and lets his…
We went to Meaux Bar last night to celebrate Mom’s birthday – I decked out in jewelry and high heels and fake fur. It was the perfect place to go as everyone there knows our name – Debbie waited on us, Matthew fed us, Jim sat us. It was all good.
Every Saturday my mom and I would have lunch and I miss that. I was in Metairie today taking my camera in the shop and just going to Metairie and passing by her street made me ache. Then I was putting dog bags in the box we keep them in – my mom used to save the plastic bags her newspapers came in in an empty kleenex box and give them to me for dog…
I know what people mean about children growing up so quickly – today is the fourth week of having Tin in our lives and looking back over the photos I’m shocked at how much he has changed. More than that, I was in Metairie to get my camera fixed this afternoon and I was shocked to see the grandstands going up for Mardi Gras. Good god. Here is one of the photographs that Marc Pagani…
When I was living at the American Can and Katrina hit, my neighbor, a Master swimmer and swim instructor at Southern University for decades helped save others by swimming across the fetid water to get supplies and help. After Katrina he got a pink slip from Southern – hail to the hero. Then soon he was steadily employed and life was good again. I see him now and then, he’s been to parties at the…