Yesterday was beautiful, windy and wild. From the point of waking up till we sat down at the table it was nonstop hustle bustle but it brought about one of the most lovely Thanksgiving I’ve had in a long time. We set up the table on the bayou and everyone brought their plates laden with Greek offerings. Tin who had waited much too long for his meal, wound up hitting nap time and so he…
This year we’re taking the turkey out of Thanksgiving and putting the Thanks in and the Giving. We’re gathering today to give thanks for the day and in the spirit of our Greek theme, my poem today is Ode to A Grecian Urn by John Keats – nothing could be more appropriate than to use one of the greatest odes in the English language to fit the theme (Greek), the mood (I too am contemplating…
Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 80s and I think it is 80 right now at 10 pm but everywhere else it is cold – Steve said it is 20 in Oregon, Alice posted over a foot of snow in Utah, and I believe Illinois is cold as well. Meanwhile, while I sit here with the a/c and fan cranked up high, hot in my light shift nightie, T is bathing in a chicken…
My cardiologist never called me back even though he put me through the paces of all these tests. Come to find out he was waiting for the end of my monitoring my heart for 30 days, and I had to confess I sent the damn thing back after only 10 days. I said it gave me more anxiety to think about my heart beats and monitor it than it did not to. I’m not sure…
A while back I was up at some friends’ cabin in the Sierra and I professed to have led an unconventional life having grown up in hotels in many countries to a father with gypsy in his blood and a mother who was willing to suspend her disbelief. But my friend relieved me of own fantasy and reminded me that I was married and middle class and there was little about me the resembled the…
Before when parents would tell me they never saw movies anymore, I didn’t have a clue, now I know. I went from being a movie whore to being movie deprived except for Netflix. But today we ran to see The Social Network and found out it has left New Orleans and so we ended up watching Burlesque – which we gave a 7 on a scale of one to ten.
Is it me or is there more moss on the trees in New Orleans than normal? Uptown, midtown, downtown moss is thick on the oaks.
My mother always saw the world through rose colored glasses and that is what kept her sane because she could not suffer reality. I always thought I took a sharp, clear view of the world but then at 45 when my eyesight deteriorated and I couldn’t read anything and I couldn’t remember anything I realized my focus was not as crisp as all that. I went to the eye doctor and he prescribed new glasses…
The turkeys are safe at this house this year as we prepare to have our Greek fest on the bayou on Thanksgiving day. The weather is so wonderful it’s hard to believe that it is around the end of November and we are even talking about Thanksgiving but there you have it – the every day mystery of living in the Gulf South where weather is usually good. Our big dish will be fish, prepared…
By all accounts I’m a bull according to the horoscope that is – but a lot of times you could call me a bull the way I move through life (sort of like in a china closet) because I just have a tendency to go full on till I drop. I’m also a boar according to the Chinese horoscope and that is pretty much who I am as well, sort of happy as a pig…