Looks like I’m not the only one enjoying the gulf breeze – this email just came across the neighborhood list serve: Just drove by the Marconi lagoons at Filmore Avenue near the City Park Stables. A 5 to 6 foot alligator taking advantage of the warm weather and high water floating still about 12 yards of the shoreline.
Slept like a dog last night, dreaming of being underwater most of the night. Could be the rain we have been having. Could be that the air is laden with water. A breeze was blowing all morning and you could smell the water in the air. Big puffy clouds ranging from white to black move swiftly overhead and a stark blue sky is behind each one. Our happiness over a baby girl is tinged with…
When Helen Hill was murdered, people put up signs along her street in the Bywater that said ENOUGH. Those signs are back up again as New Orleans started the year with three murders on its first brand new day. As ugly as every one of those murders were, they pale in comparison to 2-year-old Ja’Shawn Powell being killed by his father because he was forced to to pay child support. Yes, Danny Platt was a…
Eleven is a master number in the whole numerology gig, if you follow that stuff. It’s a special number that means neither beginning, endings, closure, or what have you, instead it’s a number of higher power and mystery. T and Me: Today’s a special day for T and me, it’s eleven months since Mardi Gras, and an anniversary we celebrate and cherish. And today we received a fabulous, over the top, spectacular anniversary gift –…
I was lucky enough to find a job that employs some of my better talents – talking and writing. Now I have a baby coming that will challenge my other hidden talent – hair. I used to do all of my dolls’ hair and even my sister’s dolls (much to her chagrin). I cut a few boyfriends’ hair and cut Steve’s hair for years, and actually a hoity toity stylist in San Francisco asked where…
This Monday started with no less of the stress, no less of the too many to do’s, no less of some things not going according to the plan, but what was different about this Monday, was that it started with us looking into a digital ultrasound machine and see an image of our baby girl – first her butt, then her legs, then her arms, then her big head and her long amphibian looking spinal…
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious and great things. Rainer Maria Rilke
A friend of mine likes to tell the story of how her younger brother used to kiss the mirror by the front door. Self-love? Narcissist? The family discovered this after seeing lip prints on the mirror each day and his siblings chided him unmercifully over his indiscretion. I was filing away stuff on my desk, a chore I meant to do two weeks ago, and came across an envelope from a florist with a Valentine…
The true last days of 2008 may well have been this weekend as the 5th marks the official start back to work date for most people. All down the block I have talked to all sorts of people preparing for tomorrow while there is the pull to enjoy this beautiful January day (in the high 70s) and to prepare for the year ahead. I started the morning reading an article in the NYT that Michael…
We forced ourselves out of our routine here and got dressed up and went out. It was a much needed respite from being homebodies. We were headed to Swirl but it was closed for inventory, the Quarter was crowded with Sugar Bowl revelers, and so we went to Clever, the wine bar that opened next to Cork & Bottle in the American Can Company. It was great, we walked in and it was not too…