Dilemma #1 = where to put the guests When the LaLa was built it had ample storage and plenty of places for guests to sleep. Fast forward to one partner, one kid, two dogs, and one cat and there is no place for anything anymore. My large house feels like a cottage. My bike that I love is under a tarp in the side yard which is where it should be since I never have…
I heard a man today on LPR saying he hoped that our state bird would not die out because of this oil spill. Pelicans be strong. I can’t imagine this city, the waterways, this bayou without our beloved state bird – the Pelican. Yesterday, in the midst of a conference call a small sparrow collided with the large window in my office and plunged to his death down in the outdoor shower. I ran down…
Today while I held a cell phone in one hand and my Blackberry in the other trying to conduct business in the waiting room of the hospital, an elderly man with a smile approached me. He said, “I hope you don’t think I am rude to be staring at you.” I thought, you were staring at me? Then he said, “You look just like my aunt.” I thought, your aunt? He laughed and said that…
We went into the hospital today for a thirty minute surgery on T’s meniscus, only we arrived at 11 and left at 5 – it’s amazing to me that doctors don’t think we have anything else to do with our life but wait on them, listen to them, and generally just stand there like a deer in the headlights. As I waited in the lobby I was given a device much like they hand you…
I dreamt last night of a train wreck only it was a streetcar and a barge and they collided on the street in front of me as I was running from hearing something disturbing that a loved one said to me. I looked up what this means and all I can say is go figure: Dream Symbols – Train Wreck In modern society trains have become relatively rare. Just what does dreaming about a train…
The president told Matt Lauer that he is looking for whose ass to kick – big tough guy. You know what, it’s Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser who is out there figuring it out. BP has proven to be the most irresponsible, arrogant and patronizing company that I’ve ever seen the likes of since Enron. As a matter of fact the Federal Government has proven to be the most incompetent governing body that the United…
I See the Sea… I see the sea shrink then shrink again until it fits in the palm of my hand. And I hear the sound of flying fish, the dead sailors’ cough, the burning whales, the shivering mermaids, the horses and the wind, the sea’s white curls, and the drowned strangers who have forgotten their human voice. I see the sea shrink then shrink even more the oars’ hopeless beats, the foam-circled boats, the…
Forget about all those books like why New Orleans matter – food, music, port, culture – there is simply no way to describe walking out of a building after a rain coming down while the sun is shining and feeling like you just took a sauna. We took the dogs and Tin around the bayou this afternoon because I felt the need to bolt from the LaLa after a day in front of the computer…
There is a great song sung by Waylon Jennings and his beautiful wife, Jesse Colter call Storms Never Last. Well, it’s raining again in New Orleans, storming, with thunder and lightning and just now I read on a friend’s blog a great way to think: Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass . . . It’s about learning to dance in the rain. I started thinking about all the reasons why the dark…
One of the white ducks got hit by a car and is limping around the bayou. Word up is the lady who put them there in the first place took the duck to the vet to find out that it costs several hundred dollars to euthanize a duck – really? I said, my neighbor will do it for free. But the duck actually looked like it could handle its new gimp leg and so unlike…