We’re knee deep in the Mad Men series – the characters, the plot, the times – all just have captured our imagination. But it’s Betty that holds me spellbound. She looks and acts so like my own mother – a beautiful woman trapped with only smoking and wine to douse her overwhelming desire to run away. My mom ran away but as I remember as a young child, she was brought home, in the arms…
The conference fractured off into parties and music venues and we arrived with our posse to the Spotted Cat for good fun jazz. Thank god they restored this place, when it was renamed Jimbeaux’s I just wanted to spit, but it’s back to its former glory.
In the new version I learned that my need to do everything for everyone left very little room for everyone to be anyone. So the new me is all about giving space. I also know that focusing on something too much tends to make it suck the life out of everything else around it too. I went to bed on Friday consumed by the latest uncertainty on the adoption trail and even had told T…
I don’t know how many times you can headline your entry with TGIF but if you go back through mine – you might find it is the most repeated. The weather in New Orleans borders on perfection – cool air, bright sunshine, cloudless skies. Today was the day for tires – I had to get all new ones for the truck and T started her day with a flat – so I dropped one car…
One recurring theme that has come up among the nurses at the hospital is that most have been single mothers. One was telling me as we were fixing my mom’s bed that her three week old grandchild was sick and she was unable to think of anything else right now. She said, “I was a single mom when my kids were little and I had to struggle to work and take care of them and…
Campbell said you have to be prepared to give up the life you had planned for the one that presents itself and no truer words were ever spoken. Yesterday, having not seen my mother one day I was feeling very sad and anxious and guilty and throw any emotion in there you want – I was feeling it. Then work was firing on all cylinders as it is earnings season and there were ups and…
Last night I dreamed I went to a concert and left my jacket and purse on the windowsill and someone stoled the entire contents of my wallet and my jacket. I think it was hinged on a conversation I had with our friend staying with us, whose friend left her jacket in JFK on the flight here and someone pilfered it. I looked up dreams of theft and this is what I read: stealing Someone stealing…
November 06, 2009 Taurus (4/20-5/20) To ensure you have the most pleasant day possible, stay flexible and just let the world show you something fantastic. Save yourself from trying to create special situations — it’s a waste of time. The best moments in life are spontaneous — when everything just falls into place. So forget about all the planning and coordinating. If you can just let things be what they are going to be, the magic…
One day when this is all said and done, I’ll write the details of private adoption in the US and in particular the cost and who financially benefits – I’ll give you a hint, neither of the mothers. My friends who have emptied their pockets and adopted have all told me that once the baby is in your hands you forget about the cost, that includes financial, time, emotional, etc. My horoscope today – poignant.…
I told someone that I was wrong about hurricane season – that it doesn’t end on the 1st but rather the 30th of November. She said, well it was your intuition that it had ended, trust that. So there it is, I feel relief.