Mom said there was a party going on in the room next door to her and bid me to go check. I was placating her and she got vexed so I went over there to see if there was any sort of party going on. Instead I found meek Ms. Gaspar sleeping in her dark bed, not uttering a peep. When a friend of mine was dying of AIDS, in his final month, he lay…
I’ve been speaking to women who might be looking to put their baby up for adoption. I know what is coming in a year long segue into dirty diapers but I can’t tell you how thrilled I am at the chance that we might be parents very soon. Today, I was visiting my mother and once again watching the nurses clean her up and then right when they finished, like clockwork, they had to start…
We experienced near perfect weather today in New Orleans which was a welcome respite from the fact that we had swung from 92 degrees to 55 degrees in the blink of an eye and never had a chance for one of those “let’s open the window” moments. Loca and I were walking through City Park and she was looking up at me adoringly and I said to her, I love you too, in some sort…
I’m knee deep into the second part of the trilogy of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series and I ran a hot bubble bath and escaped there to just let myself become engrossed in the book. The house could have burned down and I wouldn’t have noticed.
My pest control guy came by late today and we were talking about his dog who just cost $1200 at the vet for skin care. I said, “It’s insane how much we spend on these dogs.” And he said, “We do it, because we can.”
How can it only be Tuesday? It seems like so much has happened in the past few days that I’m not sure if we are living at some warp speed or what? I mean we’re supposed to be in the lazy South but it sure doesn’t feel like it. The weather went from hot and humid to cold and frigid to absolutely gorgeous in just about 48 hours. The pelicans are here – a clear…
When I went to therapy for the first time at 20 years old it was because I was in love with a manic depressive alcoholic plus I wanted to be able to get along with my family, who I loved, but was having difficulty. She told me that I should move as far away from my family as I possibly could. October 20, 2009. When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.…
I spoke to an old flame of my mom’s today and gave him the update on her condition. He said a day hasn’t passed in all these years where he doesn’t think of her.
I was driving home the other day from the hospital and found I had two messages on my cellphone. I pulled over to listen to them and they were from a nutty relation spewing venom. I listened without having any feeling whatsoever and then only a mild sense of amusement. I had, I learned today, transcended the moment. If every transaction requires a giver and a receiver and I was not the giver of these…
The best time to watch the earth as it moves past Halley’s Comet debris left in the atmosphere will be between 1 a.m. and dawn local time Wednesday morning, regardless of your location. That’s when the patch of Earth you are standing on is barreling headlong into space on Earth’s orbital track, and meteors get scooped up like bugs on a windshield.