Petraeus Warns Against Planned Koran-Burning (NYT) By ADAM B. ELLICK Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said that plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on Sept. 11 could play into the hands of extremists.
Since we hired Tin’s nanny, we asked her to keep a journal of the day, for things that are helpful to know – how many BMs, what new words or discoveries were made, or anything pertinent to our understanding of how his day went without us. While my friend was here, he received a text message from the woman watching his cat. It went like this: Went to visit cat, she came out to greet…
Yesterday, for Labor Day, since the nanny was here, we took the day off and went with our out-of-town friends to tour the 9th Ward and then over to the Country Club in the Bywater. The Country Club is where I held my 50th birthday party, which was a blast and just so happens these same friends had come in for that occasion as well. Since this was Southern Decadence weekend and the Country Club…
I was thinking about Tin’s genealogy as I was working on mine and Tatjana’s. I have some details of his background but not a lot. I thought of a study I read once that talked about how the influx of Africans came into the United States and there was some tracking someone had done about how tribes from this part of Africa had wound up one part of the U.S. and other tribes in other…
Yesterday, we were sitting on the porch in the late afternoon eating our sandwiches from Parkway and a pelican flew by. It’s early. They usually don’t come until October so here they are a full month earlier than usual. Now it could be some lone pelican who decided to come in off the lake because he was in a mood for a little travel, but I’d say if you listen to the animals you learn…
We had three different couples in from out of town this weekend and it is Southern Decadence with all sorts of events to go to, one namely being the big parade yesterday, and as things would have it, we did not do much of any of what we had planned: Reason number 1: On Sunday, Tin who never naps in the morning slept for a long time. Then didn’t eat lunch. Reason number 2: It…
The subject of appropriate age differences came up and T said that in Croatia there is a saying: if you lay down with children, you wake up peed on. Pretty well sums it up what we were trying to say all evening.
When Obama was in town he took the entire family to Parkway Bakery & Tavern, right down the bayou from me. I’m not sure what they ate, but here’s a pretty good idea of how it went – I was there ordering a catfish on a bun dressed and a large roast beef poboy dressed – we were going to split with the boys. While I was waiting for my order, the kitchen loudspeaker came…
This morning walking through City Park with Loca and Heidi on a gorgeous almost fall day, we passed all the other fellow park pedestrians who were also out later than usual because it is Sunday, because it is Labor Day weekend, and because. It was a lovely day, I had left Tin for a resleep in the crib and Tatjana for a morning nap after we had all had eggs, grits, biscuits and the last…
Ever hear the one that goes like this: Fatty and Skinny went to bed, fatty rolled over and skinny was dead? Well today we went to breakfast at Huevos and once again Tin ate four tamales, two poached eggs while I was struggling to keep up. Then I came home and was getting ready to hose down the back porch as we have company in this weekend and Joe was out in the back yard…