Tragedy strikes when you least expect it
My thoughts are with Natasha Richardson’s family. Poor thing – so young and beautiful.
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Month: March 2009
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I happen to love NY
Okay so it isn’t freezing cold here and I was on my way back to the conference from a lunch appointment and popped into Henri Bendel and it was like a shopping fantasy land. Now I know why I hate shopping in New Orleans. So then I just browsed Banana Republic because I had just been there in NOLA and was wondering if the chains were downgrading us or something – turns out that BR’s…
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These dreams of you
I woke this morning in a hotel room with that feeling of “Where am I?” and believe me that was a loaded question. When I turned on the light in the bathroom, I saw the red dotted face from whatever has bit me or made me allergic. And then I started making the slow progression into where am I. I am about to turn 50, in New York on business in an economy that feels…
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What New York sounds like
“Tell her we are not getting a bigger kennel.” “Westies can’t stay in the kennel for ten hours.” “Our dog is just a normal dog, why should it need a bigger kennel?” “It’s not that I’m not listening to you, it’s just that I don’t think this is as big a deal as it is becoming.” Tomorrow there is no rehearsal, so you are free to do what you want. Amid whirring, honking, shuffling, sirens.
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What New Orleans sounds like
On the way to yoga, I heard Evan Christopher playing his clarinet on WWOZ and next he was chatting in the studio. Later on the way to the airport, I heard TR’s smooth voice introducing Danny Boy, appropriate for St. Patty’s Day. At the Louis Armstrong airport, a woman said, “Where’d ya get those shrimps?” “Um umm” another woman said, “they sure look good.” The gentlemen who looked at my ticket said, “I just got…
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Here comes another wave
In the past twenty four hours, we have received numerous contact with people who have adopted through private adoption in the US, championing our cause and urging us onward. We’ve also received a note saying there is a possible baby. So how do you plan your future without a baby and simultaneously plan for a maybe baby?
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Why leave paradise?
I’m headed to a conference in New York and it is cold there. It is stunningly beautiful in New Orleans. People are depressed there from the cold and the news. People are laid back and happy here. Why leave paradise? Because it’s hard to make a living in New Orleans, that’s why.
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Getting over the bottle
Marin County has the highest incidence of breast cancer in the world. Some believe that the demo of affluent white older women might be the cause – as they tend to go to the doctor sooner and are diagnosed earlier. Others blame bottled water. Yes, that’s right, this demographic of women were the early adopters of the strange bottled water craze. We’re going green at the LaLa and have done away with all bottled water.…
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Planning for nothing
I stacked up my business travel in anticipation of Ele being born early June, now I’m left with stacked up business travel. I’m trying to see the bright side and this is the only thing that comes to mind – if this baby were intended for us, she would have come. What else can I believe?
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The very air I breathe
The air is so humid in New Orleans you can cut it with a knife – we’ve all heard that one, but did you know that some of the reason why we are a social beast down here is that voices carry further in damp air than in dry and so we live not only in close proximity but also in hearing range of others. That of course changes if you are in separate rooms…