We’re watching The Wire and honestly don’t feel compelled to ever watch another episode of Treme after many episodes from Season One of The Wire – totally captivating. I do feel though that the lesbian make-out scenes are so gratuitous and unimaginable. Yes, one of the main characters is a lesbian, but does she always need to be groping or sucking face with her partner? Not really. Meanwhile, there is a lot of criticism right…
For just one moment, ending this Monday madness, we will got sit on the porch and look at the dying light and once again be grateful that we are living the dream (as I told a guy who was sitting at the table in front of my house – he said great renovation on the LaLa, and I said, we’re living the dream). And so it is.
My neighbors have chickens in their backyard for their son to raise and learn about – sort of like 4H here on Moss Street. I forget all about those chickens except the one that got caught in a cat’s mouth and wound up dead on the front lawn, but otherwise the chickens are in the backyard pretty much to themselves. But my neighbors were going out of town and we ended up taking over chicken…
In another life I am the owner of a Bed and Breakfast on Esplanade Avenue and an Ambassador for this wonderful city of New Orleans. I’m making sure that my guests sleep on crisp clean linens and hear rich wonderful music and eat fabulous food and guide them to all sorts of places tailored for their own peculiar tastes. However, on a completely different front I’m a nutritionist, helping people make the right choices, particularly…
Our neighbors are out of town and we’re watching their dog, their chickens, and Tin is using their trampoline every day. It’s hard to slow life down, but getting on a trampoline is one way to do it. There are little kids that live inside all of us and there are certain triggers that can burrow down through the adult crap and get to the heart of the matter – jumping on a trampoline is…
Tin and I were walking along and he saw his shadow and stood in amazement at the discovery. Then I showed him my shadow. And then I showed him shadow birds and dogs and other animated gestures that shadows can make. When I was in LA, T kept telling me that Tin was learning something new every day. He was jumping on our neighbors’ kids trampoline. He is kicking his ball like a soccer ball.…
I woke this morning thinking of my brother in prison as it is Father’s Day and I’d have to say the one thing that my brother would say with certainty is his child is the best thing that has every happened to him. I took a minute to wish him out of his circumstances so that next Father’s Day might be different. As I prepared breakfast a friend Skyped from Germany, and our lively conversation…
I got in bed around 4AM on Saturday morning, having finally arrived from my much delayed flight out of L.A. We had a birthday party to go to at 10AM but I had barely crawled out of bed by 9AM. Then I just wanted to hang out with T1 and T2 and the dogs (and the cat of course). We went to Ruby’s birthday and James Singleton was playing with a friend and kids were…
While at the Terranea resort last week, we encountered a guy with some interesting birds. He was trying to get certified I forgot as what but he needed to train a hawk and he had one, a beautiful female Harris Hawk: He also had American Kestrel that had been born in captivity. Their life span in the wild is three years, whereas his was already two and the life span in captivity is almost dog…
Nora Zeale Hurston said there are years that bring questions and years that bring answers. It is definitely feeling like a year of answers for me. Small ones. Just sort of nudges in certain directions. My horoscope today felt right on as well: June 19, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Life is looking great right now! You’ve got your friends and your sweetie (or crush, anyway), plus all the invites that keep coming and, of course, your immediate…