For a lot of us in the neighborhood, La Vita’s raison d’etre came to an end when Fatma departed. You will remember the high times we had when it first opened and we sat on the avenue with friends and neighbors and began our life again here in New Orleans after Katrina. The latest restaurant swan song is Amy and Al sold Asia Pacific to Moosey and it is being opened as Nona Mia –…
I think I mentioned the article I was reading in Oprah’s latest magazine about straight women who fall for women. Well there is a segment on this topic today on Oprah – watch it.
The Bayou St John Conservation Alliance has been working to ensure that the floodgates remain active and manned to keep our bayou from becoming a stagnate puddle. Volunteers have been replanting the necessary habitat along the banks to keep the bayou healthy. Most of these shots in this news reel are near the lake where the bayou widens, but the shot back where you see the cupola is towards the LaLa.
Last night, I had dinner with friends and realized something – women are awesome! Here I was sitting with a friend going through some troubles, a friend celebrating her survival of troubles, and another who cooked for us and brought us together. Women are supportive, funny, nurturing, and never boring. Obama was on the television set fielding questions about the stimulus package but our eyes and ears were geared to what was going on at…
Before I even moved into the LaLa a war was underway with the neighbors to my right – I mean a war. And I zen’d it away by deciding to turn the other cheek and kill them with kindness. That’s why when my other neighbor sent me this, I laughed a full on belly laugh – only the truth is funny.
I woke up rested, had a pleasurable walk with Loca, accomplished work tasks that had been piling up, and then went to yoga where Michele held the most amazing class I have attended. Every moment of it – from walking in and hearing her gorgeous voice to working through challenging poses and going deeper into my body and further opening my mind, I ended feeling like I had been somewhere – someplace inside of me…
I was walking in the park this morning and there were two Muscovy ducks chatting each other up by the banks of the lagoon. Their faces look like they are turned inside out and are covered with red skin that is bumpy, exaggerated, and frankly, gross, with a knob on top of the bill and lumps all over. I got a good close look at the bigger one and and recoiled then couldn’t help myself,…
After almost a week of no sleep and stress attacking from all sides, not to mention a stream of news of the dead (yet this morning I heard of another celebrity who is dying), I came home last night from the movie, did my skin care, flossed extra special, brushed thoroughly, tucked in all the animals, turned off all the phones and I took an Atavan. And I slept like a baby. I know that…
Disconcerting. My gf is on her way to Istanbul. You could say it is a lesbian thing, but I don’t know. I did research on the subject of ex girlfriends and one article I read said for lesbians the real relationship is the ex-girlfriend. It was written by a professor name Tatiana – don’t get me started. Discombobulating. I mentioned my research to T; however, the professor loathes when I quote scholarly gay studies –…
Been thinking about the rules – you know the relationship ones – and I’m somewhat confused by the rules I knew and the ones that exist in a gay relationship. Actually, I’m pretty sure none exist in a gay relationship because they are living outside of convention, so most cherry pick the rules. In your straight people, you’ll find the typecasts of faithful, philanderer, noncommital, jealous, giver, and taker and you find these all in…