The mysteries of the ages
How is it that at 14 years of age you know everything and at 50 you still think there is so much you don’t know?
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Month: June 2009
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How to relax and be a drop of water
I went to go get acupuncture today because my nagging back flared up again – she thinks it is my L5 nerve that runs down the side of my leg. She said that I have a lot of stress in my shoulders so I told her about the whole right side aggressive and left said passive theory and asked what she thought. She said in talking to me over the past few months she thinks…
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How to tell a scam
I have a heightened bullshit detector built inside of me but it seems my mother never did. She called today to say she had a job! She was thrilled and excited and said she would be a mystery shopper for WalMart and they had sent her a $3000 check to get started. Sigh. But in the new and improved Rachel, rather than say, “Are you crazy?” instead I said, “Let me Google that. No, I’m…
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Wearing black
I went to dinner at Meaux Bar last night with friends wearing all black. I wasn’t exactly melancholy but I felt like the world had shifted somewhat with the death of Michael Jackson. I grew up with him – we were the same age – and since he was a little Afro haired boy to what he became lately, his music has always moved me and I mean that literally. After Meaux Bar, we went…
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Remembering Arlene
This morning a friend wrote that she had to make a tough decision and put her beloved dog down yesterday. She said that during the split second she had to make the decision – her dog was in surgery – and the deed, the sky opened up and started pouring down rain and after the sun came out. I know how she felt having just been through this with Arlene. I love my dogs Loca…
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Black Thursday
Farrah Fawcett dies of cancer at 62 then Michael Jackson dies at 50! Good god two icons in one day. This is too much – time to pull out the black dress and crank up Billie Jean.
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Can I get an amen!
It is raining cats and dogs outside – the palm trees are bending over backwards, the sky is pure gray, and the clouds have stalled right overhead and unleashed their fury. YEE HA! I love me a storm and there is nothing like a New Orleans summer monsoon to make things fresh again. I’m sure the Green Market folks don’t love it but my garden is taking in every last drop.
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Balancing passivity against aggression
I spent most of 2007 unrolling from the fetal position after an arduous journey from hell and back – I have Katrina, two men, one boy and a house remodel to thank for that enlightenment. So in 2007 I just let loose and became a wild child, I did not have one boundary up at all. That, I understand was allowing the left side of me to take over – the passivity of just being…
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Goodbye to one Angel
Farah Fawcett died after a long battle with cancer. It reminded me of reading about Treya in Grit and Grace – the long battle. What struck me the most was this guy that I met through my brother years ago name David. He was helping my brother to put on a celebrity golf tournament here in New Orleans and he said he went to her house one time and that when she opened the door…
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The puritans and the politicians
In 1492, Columbus sailed the blue and claimed to have discovered America, which was a surprise to the Native Americans who had been living here. Columbus and crew came with all of their puritan values, which is why, now a couple of centuries later, politicians and sex get so much attention in the U.S. of A. I couldn’t believe that on CNN they were showing the emails from the Argentinian lover of this governor –…