I was getting gardening stuff at the Feed Store and two big bags of alfalfa pellets which make awesome mulch for roses, and the check out girl said, “Your teeth are purdy.” I said thanks (thinking for a mere twenty grand you could have these teeth). She said, “I wish I had teeth like yours.” I said “Let me see your teeth.” And she smiled a little. “Those aren’t bad teeth.” She said, “Well if…
I was walking out of City Park this morning and passing General P G T Beauregard’s statue when I heard crunch, the sound of a car plowing into another car. I looked to my right and made eye contact with someone watching and then heard another crunch to the left, the sound of another car running smack into another car. The city is redoing the surface of Wisner and there are cones up everywhere and…
Yesterday, after completing my yoga practice and lying prone on the ballroom floor of NOAC with my pink, caught three years ago, Muses’ eye mask on, I listened to Love is My Religion playing on the stereo and drifted off into an unconscious world of joy. I was day dreaming about all that I don’t know yet and all that remains to be seen, heard, tasted, smelled. Here is my horoscope this morning: January 16,…
Several years ago I was in New York for a Women in Media Summit and the penultimate speaker was a motivational speaker who talked to the audience about finding opportunities. I was sitting in the second row and had her brochure in my hand as there was one on every seat. In the photo of her brochure she had blonde hair but at the podium she had chestnut colored hair. After she finished speaking, she…
I was speaking to a friend in the neighborhood who used to live in the Luling Mansion when it was apartments. Remember this is the big mansion I discovered on Leda Street for the first time (how could I not have seen this before?) just the other day. Luling Mansion Address: 1436–1438 Leda Street The massive three-story Italianate Luling Mansion was designed by architect James Gallier Jr., and built in 1865 for Florence A. Luling.…
I was walking Loca briskly through the park this morning, thinking about a few things like T’s past two afternoon walks with Loca where she encountered raging dog owners shouting profanity at their dog or our dog or what have you. Then I was thinking how City Park is considered the fifth largest park in the nation and guess what, one of the safest. About the time when all these thoughts were swarming through my…
Two days at the dentist is enough to make you never want to see one again, except now I have a million dollar smile – or rather a $20,000 smile – and so I’m happy I went. I didn’t have my teeth done because I wanted whiter teeth – I had chronic tonsillitis as a child and a doctor for a father so I had more than the usual dosages of Tetracycline and as a…
Ah, the conflict of just who “we” means. When 9/11 happened and Bush got tough in his edited and second address to the nation and world, the dove in me was overshadowed by the hawk who wanted to tell the world that we won’t be a target for these terrorists. I didn’t support a war in Iraq – not at all – and in time, I made a clear line of distinction between Bush’s hawkish…
I was in the middle of the second day of my dental ordeal when the equipment broke and I was left laying there, mouth agape, waiting. While there, the hygienist came in and said one of the patients had fallen in her kitchen on New Year’s eve and hit her head and died shortly thereafter – 46 with two young children. Meanwhile, I was reading obits in the last People magazine of 2008 and was…