Tin and I were walking into Elmwood Fitness yesterday for his fourth and last installment of swim lessons before we leave for the sunny beaches of Europe and a handsome black man headed to his car stopped and looked at us as we passed. Just passed him, he said, “You never see a white woman carrying a black baby.” I just smiled at him and said, “You do now.” He then said, “He yours?” and…
Tin has always had a very serious pensive look and luckily as the months have come and gone with us together that furrowed brow is seldom visible anymore. But he can still give you a game face, usually in a situation that he is unfamiliar with. But the other day I took him to the hospital with me to see my aunt who had just had back surgery and he only had that look for…
Today is the Bastille Day celebration over on Ponce de Leon and all the merchants are putting on the dog. But for me this is a somber occasion, because last year, on July 11th on Saturday’s Bastille Day celebration Tatjana and I were enjoying ourselves to the max, having margaritas and dancing to the sound of the Creole String Beans while T’s mother sat in Fortier Park speaking to a neighbor. On our way home…
UNO announced yet another round of layoffs today – really? – how much more could they cut? Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to know the answer. $14 million cut out of the budget that was already reduced to nothing in the last round of layoffs. Question is – can this university survive Jindal’s bid for the presidency? UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan
One of the real emotional issues I’ve had to battle with the last few days is the sense of not having control of my destiny and that has been manifest in disparate observations that I’ve cobbled together. One example of which is I bought this house with two incomes and set out a remodel that was within budget reach, but in the blink of an eye, I became one income and the remodel cost tripled…
Starting the day with a walk through the park with the dogs is the best way to hold the demons at bay – yes this is another day in paradise complete with all the stress that accompanies the other days but today as Lena Horne said, “It’s not the burden that wears you down, it’s how you carry it.” So Zen dropping #72 from the Tao te Ching to begin this Thursday: When they lose…
With the envelope figuratively at my temple I must return again to this one wonderous fact – who matters, not what – we are living through some interesting times – right in the thick of rapid developments, considerable game changers, epic strains that require heroic solutions, and uncertainty – don’t forget uncertainty – but buckled into this roller coaster ride comes facts that haven’t changed since first recorded history and those are: a) if you…
Friends of mine in California said that they used to know a child who they called Rotten Rachel. Rotten Rachel was a holy terror of misery and then suddenly she turned 14 and became a delightful young adult and has grown up to be a person you would want to know. No one knows why she was a terror or why when most kids are becoming a terror she became nice. It’s a puzzle. Ruby…
Today was a day for having a Come to Jesus with myself. What, why, and when? were the pertinent questions circling my mind. The answers are out there but I was clawing at the walls trying to find them and suddenly my brother called out of the blue and asked if I could have lunch. So I went to lunch and it was just what the doctor ordered, I bounced all my what, why and…
The days leading up to us leaving for our vacation are like walking on fire – I’m not sure I have what it takes to make it without exploding into a million pieces. The truth is I’m toast – just done with all the getting and spending where we lay waste our powers. I’m ready to find myself again because I’ve gotten lost in everyone else’s agenda and certainly not my own. In yoga the…