Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, and go downtown…
Tonight, we are headed to One Eyed Jacks to hear music and hang out with friends. Thank god for these moments.
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Month: June 2009
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Addled brain
I don’t know about others, but I love being 50, even though who the hell can remember anything at this age? I seem to forget just about all that is about to come out of my mouth. This phenomenon sharpened on May 2nd and has become greatly pronounced every day hence. Maybe it doesn’t really matter anyway – I was always the Mistress of a Million Details. Fuck the details. Who really cares about minutia…
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Insult to injury
I called to check on mom midday and she was saying how stupid she was for falling. I told her to quit adding insult to injury, not to beat herself up for falling down. She said her physical therapist keeps telling her the same thing, not to make matters worse by saying negative things to yourself, about yourself.
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The family tree stops here
A long time ago I saw someone in a park in San Francisco wearing a tee shirt with a tree icon and this sentence on it – The Family Tree Stops Here! It rubbed me the wrong way when I saw it, like it was too strong, too much an ending with no beginning. We’ve heard about a possible baby being born on August 1st, and we’re going to see another new adoption attorney who…
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Finding my guru when I needed one
Michele at yoga hit the nail on the head today as I ran to make it to class and got there just as everyone had laid back on a bolster and sat with their legs froggy style – she had just begun to talk about addiction (see block quote below), reading from her own guru’s text. I took a double take in my mind – are we in sync or what? Then I took my…
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Leaving Las Vegas, Metairie style
We were awoken from a dead sleep last night from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff who was standing in my mother’s apartment. She had fallen and was bruised badly and bleeding. We both raced over to Metairie to encounter three EMTs and one mother sitting at the kitchen table bruised, drinking and smoking. Not to mention, incoherent. I had hoped on the way that this might be a segue to get her into the emergency room,…
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When I’m dead
I was cracking up at Iggy Pop on Fresh Air today citing how he has this ritual where he says, “If I was dead, I wouldn’t have to…” This morning, after having gone to sleep closing a chapter from Grit and Grace that was pretty horrific, I woke and had this feeling like I should jump out of bed, do this and that, and get to my desk by this time, or else. Then I…
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Nothing like a beach
We took Loca to see her boyfriend Sangi and let them romp on the beach. There is nothing like a wide open body of water, sand in your toes, dogs running and swimming, and the afternoon setting sun to make everything feel like it is okay.
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The cautionary tale
The doctor today said that mom needs to quit drinking as in the last three weeks she has gotten worse not better. Later, I was listening to Iggy Pop on Fresh Air, who has a new album out; he was describing his near death experiences and how he was there one time, overdosed, on the brink of death, and heard his mother’s voice calling him back. He said she was the one who really cared…
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Help support Swirl
The Faubourg St. John neighborhood association has issued a survey to assess the neighborhood’s opinion for allowing Swirl to sell wine by the glass and to also sell spirits by the bottle such as Perfect Vodka, my own personal favorite. I’m sending this out to all those not in the neighborhood who know Swirl because you live in New Orleans, know Swirl because you have visited me and gone there, or know Swirl because you…