When Tin came into our lives, we knew that he would enter a wide web of loving friends and family, but there was serious consideration as to what would happen to him if something happen to both of us. In comes Tante Marline, we both agreed that she would be able to pick up where we left off so she became family (well more so than before). It’s interesting how when people meet Tin, their…
A few months ago I parked at Rouse’s like I always do, on the street beside the grocery store. I parked in the same direction as everyone else parks that is butt facing Carrolton. Well I came out and had a ticket for parking the wrong direction. Since every day everyone parks that way, it just vexed me. So when I sent in my $20, I wrote on a Post-it note: That was low down.…
The theme at the new yoga studio on Canal Street is getting in touch with your source. They had a visitor offering classes over the past week, Lama Christie McNally. She was offering a class called Two as One and I went hoping to get closer to my relationship with my self and with others. It turns out the class was about moving through yoga practice with a partner. I, unfortunately, did not go with…
A friend was visiting this weekend and in a conversation he said, “A mom would think her kid’s the best even if he went out and shot somebody.” Well, that’s stretching it, but one thing that is for certain, ain’t no love like mama love. I was speaking to a friend today who recently lost her mother and since we both have just gone through this we were talking about how it sort of wakes…
We had a doctor’s appointment this morning and Tin did fabulous considering he had to get two shots. Since I opted for a flu shot too, I went first to show him what a big girl I can be. But one of his shots was a doozy, so after that he decided he knew no words to tell his pediatrician. Except when he did calm down, he looked outside and saw the big sign for…
L’Shana Tova everyone – tonight begins Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Growing up in an orthodox family, my high holidays were spent going to the synagogue with my parents, sitting underneath the widespread wings of my father’s tallit, and listening to his beautiful voice chant the readings with that wonderful Sephardic inflection. We had rhythm. I often yearn around this time, when the sun’s rays turn to a slant and the days grow shorter…
Who dat! Notice it is not a question mark anymore, it has become a declarative – Who dat! As the season opens tomorrow night with more hoopla that you could imagine in this city and this city has put on some hoopla, I’m sort of mixed about the whole thing. First, I was sort of unaware the season was starting tomorrow until clients, colleagues and sources started asking me if I was excited. Then I…
I was speaking to someone in a foreign country who told me they didn’t have access to something online because the government blocks the site. It made me think about Obama and how the big opposition to him and all the hullabaloo about whether or not he is a Muslim is not personal, it really stems from a fear of government. Reading an article by Maureen Dowd in Saudia Arabia, my stomach clenches at the…
The Ogden has launched their Start With Art kid’s program which combines music and art for one to five year olds on Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11. Tin and his nanny did this series three Wednesday in a row and it was great – he did his first craft projects, learned songs and more importantly he learned about classrooms, groups and museums. Donna’s on Rampart Street closed its doors. The times we saw Evan…
You know what they say about terrible twos – they’re horrible, yeah well there are terrible 18 months onward as well. Tin has entered the phase where he is frustrated by air molecules not blowing the way he wants them to and so it has become a little testy around the okay corral. My intuition and most of what I read all point to the same thing – do not respond to manipulative tantrums, and…