Yesterday was the anniversary of the day I moved into the LaLa three years ago in 2007. Wow, it feels like I’ve lived her my whole life or at least lived a lifetime since I moved in. Sunday evening when we were all in the king sized bed that I bought for my fantasy of one day having it populated by a lover, a child, and my pets – I lay there with my lover,…
This weekend Tin learned how to spin around in a circle. When you realize how much you just don’t know when you’re born, you realize just how much you “learn” and have to fight to “unlearn” sometimes.
In the hustle and bustle of workaday life, I fall into the category of an eight hour woman. Often times ten hours, depending on the day. What that means I give all my brains to work and when I’m done, I’m DONE, TOAST – FRIED. Today was the same – I woke to back to back calls and the alarm misfiring in my office then realizing that I had a stack of calls tomorrow all…
I did things in reverse this Sunday, reading the New York Times before I went for my bike ride out to the lakefront. The sky was grey like Denmark and moisture has returned to the air here in New Orleans. I saw a dead possum and then began my road kill list – a dead orange cat – a dead sparrow. When I got to the boathouses along the point, I counted the boathouses that…
I was reading that the Big Bang theory indicates that there is a piece of the big bang in all of us, sort of like god in all of us, or your own personal Jesus, or whatever you want to believe but that we are all linked to each other in some cosmic way. I know the cosmic links I’ve had with some, but on a large scale, no, I don’t feel cosmically linked to…
I was talking to a friend about boy noises that Tin makes – how he hunches his shoulders and tucks his elbows in and then grunts with weird football type noises. He said get used to it, boys make noises. He told me that he and his wife were at a parade and someone kept making farting noises behind him till he finally turned around. It was an old buddy of his he hadn’t seen…
Post Superbowl/Mardi Gras Blues or Detox? Spring fever or Allergies? Stress or Post-Stress? What is causing my lethargy? I decided it was too cold outside to turn the hose on and risk getting sprayed with ice water in order to clean the porch. I lay on the sofa listening to Tin on the video talking incessantly to himself while NOT NAPPING and while T napped as I read the third in the Stieg Larsson Swedish…
New Orleans has always been a third world country, it’s the reason why I love it so much. But when Katrina hit and knocked this city to its knees, most everyone thought we were done for. An ex-inlaw wrote me a nasty email about how stupid it is for anyone to live in New Orleans – this from someone in California (karma). And yet, we not only rebuilt this city, our lives, and our spirit,…
Face it, how many women know what color their hair truly is? I thought I was a blonde leading to a light brunette – but the years sneaked in a new shade of dark on me and then decided to sprinkle it all over with grey. While all that red was on my hair – underneath my hair was becoming something else. When Scott at Jupiter told me that he was coloring my hair to…
There is something so wonderful about being an older mother, about having lived my life a thousand times over before meeting Tin and helping him to make his way through his life. There is also an ease to love at this age, I know myself better today than I did yesterday and this person is committed to commitment, to making this relationship work by allowing it to grow organically and not stepping in to guide…