One of the things I was thinking about on my walk this morning is that when T and I got together we had completely different rhythms to our eating. And I merged towards her way at first and then slowly made my way back to my rhythm. One of the fall outs of both beginning a happy relationship and changing my habit of eating was to gain weight. Boom, I’m 10 pounds heavier than I…
My gal pals told me about something that might help my back problem, which has been ongoing since February 2008. Massage therapy and acupuncture have helped somewhat and switching from Pilates to yoga has provided temporary relief. But I started taking Triple Flex on Monday and I must admit only two days later feeling some lessening of the pain.
A friend gave me a book for my birthday a while back – it was Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human. Tatjana ended up reading it before me and it is still on my nightstand as my reading time has been narrowed down to two sentences a night. But I’ve become aware of Temple as T told me most of what the book was about and I heard an interview with her and Terry Gross.…
They say whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. I’ve always thought of New Orleans as hanging in the balance, a sort of faded beauty. When I stepped out of the airport after being to Boston, Nantucket, the new Jet Blue terminal at JFK, I thought, “Oh my.” Even before you are out of the plane, the smells are obvious – a sort of fecundness permeates the cabin, then you enter Louis Armstrong International Airport…
With a hint of fall in the air and the Cabrini girls wearing their plaid uniforms and trying to park around the bayou, I think nostalgically about school days past and school days future. I was hoping the intersection between past and future – my mom – was going to evolve into a multigenerational thing as we adopt and raise a child. Right now, I’m calculating the enormous amount of energy it takes to deal…
The meaning of life is to live it. Life is not meant to be comfortable, it is meant to be lived. All these sayings are fine except when you are standing in the hospital room looking at your mother, who is unresponsive, and so when I put my head down on my pillow at night, the wish I have for my mom is for her to be comfortable.