We walked over to the Botanical Gardens to see New Orleans Mystics playing covers of early Motown. A neighbor’s sister was in from out of town and had a mint julep in one hand and was flailing her other hand up in the air to the rhythm of Mustang Sally. She said she felt like she was back in Myrtle Beach in 1965. I was getting a kick out of seeing all those old men…
These challenge grants that Pepsi is handing out all over the place are a nuisance, they don’t do anything but refresh Pepsi’s email list so that they can market to you, the person who benignly thinks you are helping out a cause close to your heart get the $50,000 Pepsi promises them if they get loyal supporters to keep clicking on the grant award. I get every day emails from Friends of Tennessee Williams and…
Last night, a friend and I went to have dinner at the new restaurant on Frenchman Street – the Three Muses – a very welcome addition to the area. Nicely decorated in a New Orleans folksy decor, a live band playing in the window a la Spotted Cat, and tapas that ranged from lamb sliders to Korean bento box. Very yummy. And pretty packed for a Wednesday night as it should have been. Then we…
Sat on the back steps this afternoon – I voluntarily sat on the back steps – meaning that I was eating a snack and was coming back to my office and I was compelled to sit on the back steps. Must be fall. I sat on my terrace today. I actually went out the door of my office and pulled the chair into the shade and read a trade journal. I was on the terrace…
A dear friend told me “change requires sacrifice” today – it’s a spin on beauty requires sacrifice, which she overheard a mother telling her young daughter who was whining about too tight shoes (yikes!). But who likes change? No one. I mean some thrive on change and some force change to happen, but change is always disruptive (and I don’t use disruptive as a pejorative term). The thing is I got two calls today –…
I’m sure the food chain is going to break down – exposé like Pollan’s are not the only reason. How about zillions of eggs recalled from Iowa? We bought our milk from Smith’s Creamery at the Green Market on Saturday – it is from Washington Parish where my grandmother ran a dairy farm when I was a kid. We’ll get our eggs from them too – they were out this Saturday. Instead of plowing into…
Tin’s favorite thing in the world right now is the moon – everything is the moooooooooon. He got to see the moon in all its fullness last night as we were waiting for T to get home from her first night of class before going to sleep and we sat on the porch and watched the big old moon in the ink dark sky and the honeyed hues it cast on the bayou last night.…
There are times when the weight of things gone by tends to drag us down. There is a great zen story of two monks walking in dense woods under an oath of silence when they happen upon a woman who has tried to climb a fence and got stuck in the barb wire. One of the monks goes to help her, and untangles her dress from the fence and soothes her with calming words as…
Today, as we were trying to decide with the nanny which corner would be where Tin would have his time-outs since he has taken to hitting when he’s frustrated or tired, and taken to fits when he doesn’t get what he wants, we settled upon the corner of the bookcase. Might be good to be right there by all those writings about life’s ups and downs. A friend sent a link to a book recently…