There are two women who live across the bayou who are both 95 years old. Both of them walk every day. Both of them live alone. But that is where the similarity stops. One is active with the church and is constantly engaged in some church activity, bible class. I remember right after Katrina she told me the reason that we had been spared – those of us right on the bayou – is because…
Tin has been in the throes of Pirate-mania. Tata, our friend’s nanny in Zahara, gave him a pirate tee shirt and then we have been reading Pirates Don’t Change Diapers and suddenly it is nonstop pirate all the time around here. Below is Tin carrying around the now crumbled photograph of Tata who showed him how to baile flamenco – oh pa! and gave him galletas Maria to eat while we were in Spain. He…
We went to see The Kids Are All Right last night because T wanted to see it. I was watching it again from a sort of character point of view. I initially went to see the movie by myself and thought, wow this couple is Tatjana and me – I’m the Annette Bening character and Tatjana is the character Julianne Moore plays. But later a friend said she had seen the movie and loved it…
I’ve always been perplexed by people who take copious photographs of their cat and then want to show them. It’s so queer. And sure enough, here I find myself taking photographs of Blekica and wanting to share them. And speaking of queer, on my way home from yoga, I saw two mobile homes pull off of the I-10 exit by the Quarter, with very attractive men in front – the gays are coming, the gays…
Southern Decadence kicked off today with lots of activities around the French Quarter and beyond planned culminating in a parade on Sunday. This is the time of year when the city is flooded with beautiful young men. The history of Southern Decadence goes back to 1978 and while it is more known among the young gay men, truly it is like any other festival here in New Orleans where people wear costumes, pour out into…
I was on my way to yoga and WWOZ’s DJ was about to play When The Saints Come Marching In and he said, “I’m gonna just sit here and keep playing music otherwise we’d all just be depressed.
Breaking news from the NYT: Coast Guard Says Oil Rig Exploded in Gulf of Mexico, A.P. Reports An offshore oil rig exploded on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill, the Coast Guard told the Associated Press. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said that the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company on Thursday morning. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route…
A friend was telling me the other day that she went to work for her company because on a fluke she saw a sign on their headquarters that said they had won the Malcolm Baldridge National Award – she said, “I’m a goober who just thinks quality is so important particularly when running an organization.” I was thinking about loving your job and being excited about the possibilities of future growth within an organization. That…
I went to the park with Loca and Heidi this morning and my head was booming from this allergy or cold or whatever that I caught yesterday and can’t seem to shake. I ran into a fellow dog walker and she said to me that she had just found out yesterday she has been furloughed from her job (read: laid off). We walked together and talked and she told me that she would okay, she’s…
Michelle opened up a new yoga studio in MidCity on Canal Street. Actually, Libby will be the main person there but tonight was the grand opening and I went along with 100 other yoga followers. What an incredible space – it is in an old post office with a huge WPA mural across one entire side – the mural is about the making of sound and spans prehistoric and all races – it’s quite an…