A Turkish friend was over the other day and introduced Tin to blowing raspberries – he loves it. Tonight he entertained our friends who had come by for dinner with full on raspberry blowing that rivaled anything on MTV and he was so tickled with his performance that his laughing was contagious. Tomorrow – I’m blowing raspberries as I step back into the working world and forfeit my walks in the morning with Tin and…
Tin went to his first parade last night, Krewe de Vieux and he seemed to really enjoy the spectacle. He lasted for the first part and then fell asleep in his papoose, and later got to enjoy seeing the other kids at the party. At one point, I had walked into the room where the kids were all on the floor watching a DVD and a little boy had walked in and one of the…
Last night, we went to the Krewe de Vieux parade, stopping in at a friend’s party – the same one we have been going to for the past few years, with the same crowd of friends. And similar to last year, when one of my male friends pulled me aside and asked me, “Well, now that you are with a woman, what do you think is the biggest difference?” – another male friend pulled me…
Where floodwaters once stood, a tide of emotion rises in New Orleans By Sally Jenkins – Washington Post Staff Writer – Monday, January 25, 2010; D01 NEW ORLEANS It was a contact drunk. You didn’t have to swallow a drop for this NFC championship game to make you feel totally inebriated, like you’d been swilling the cheap well whiskey of Bourbon Street all night. When the action finally ceased, after nearly four hours, the wrenching…
Who Dat Nation 1, NFL 0 in merchandise fight by Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune A proud proclamation of membership in the Who Dat Nation: The NFL seems to have seen reason and won’t fight the Who Dats. The National Football League appeared to back off Friday on its trademark ownership claims to the phrase “Who Dat” and the fleur-de-lis logo, saying it is challenging the sale of items only “when those products contained or are advertised…
As usual, it is freezing outside and Krewe de Vieux is rolling tonight – god bless those people in the parade who don’t let the cold stop them. We’re thinking of just how many layers were could put on Tin to make sure he enjoys his first ever Mardi Gras parade and we are praying for warmer conditions come Fat Tuesday.
It’s been raining all day today – sort of a weird warm downpour that also feels like incredible pressure much like what comes before a storm, not during one. Tonight is a full moon – a wolf moon it is called because it is the cold winter night’s full moon, the first of the new year. We know what is blanketing the north and midwest with arctic weather is bearing down on us and going…
I was speaking to a friend of mine one time – a Jewish father of a grown boy. I asked him if he would mind if his son married a non-Jew and his response was, “He knows who he is.” It had this omnipresent tone to it, even though in reality the man I was speaking to was pretty hip and although he was Jewish (almost obviously), his Jewishness never seemed to be top of…
Tee shirts are being offered presale – with our answers to the NFL.
Tin is starting to get used to the people who drop in at the LaLa at all hours to visit. The difference is that now most of those people are stopping in just to see him. He has a group of regular visitors that have taken a liking to him. Of course, we know why! Yesterday one of his Turkish friends came by and spied Tatjana and my Turkish lessons on the table. I then…