I tried to ride my bike out to the lakefront this morning but when I turned to the left to avoid the Marathon, I ran smack into the runners, and when I jogged to the right I ran into them again – there was no getting around the race as it was running down every artery around City Park there was. But I finally made it to the lakefront and when I got there it…
They changed the route for the Mardi Gras Marathon and thereby cancelled an entire block party tradition. Every year my neighbor would hang his banner that said “You’re About To Take a Turn For The Worse” and we’d all stand outside in pajamas drinking Mimosas and handing out cigarettes and beer to the runners.
A friend stopped by with his daughters, one who is in sixth grade, he said that she wanted to interview us because she had been assigned a paper to write and all of the topics were so banal such as Do You Think Zoos are Good or Bad and she asked to pick her own topic and decided she wanted to write about Same Sex Marriage.
If it just happens that the world is going to end, could I just say one more time AMEN – we won the Superbowl!!!! Yes, indeed.
There are lots of theories swirling around about the Mayan calendar and the now ubiquitous 2012. I’ve heard apocalypse and I’ve heard that we are in a cycle that is ending, and we are nearing the narrower part of the funnel and that as we enter this phase, everything is speeding up to supersonic speed and that is not just catastrophes like the earthquake in Chile or the near miss Hawaii just had, it is…
All of the cliches you hear your whole life are sort of true. My mother told me that my life would change at 25, 35, 45 and that turning 50 I would know what it meant to be woman, and that the years that followed would be fabulous. She knew her stuff. The other things like you don’t know what it means to be a mother until you are one, life is short (but wide),…
I was wishing my dear friend a happy birthday today and gave her an illustrated copy of the Tao Te Ching – there are only so many people who would really appreciate this book in my life and she’s one of them. It’s of course the one translated by Stephen Mitchell but I said this book has been a constant companion on my bedside for more than two decades. She said her horoscope was stellar…
I was able to get out and walk both Loca and Tin today as the weather warmed up a little and I was working on something early and wasn’t able to take Loca out on schedule. Spring is coming – I feel it in my sinuses as much as in my soul and all I have to say is Amen – we are sick of the cold and I could have just kicked Punxsutawney Phil…
I learned from my brother my dad’s cousin passed recently and it made me so sad – losing the old men in my life. My dad and uncles have been gone for a while and now my dad’s fun loving cousins who were younger than my dad are all getting up there. I supposedly look exactly like their grandmother who was my grandmother’s sister. I sent a note to my cousins about how he will…
Years ago when I started asking my mother to keep a journal at certain times and I too started writing down our conversations, I realized I saw beauty in the absurd, the incongruent. It has stayed with me, this fascination for how life seems so black and white to a lot of people and how much it is technicolor to me. If you live in the black and white, you are many spectrums short of…