My friend was telling me that his boss made him take down a sign in his office that said, “Eight of the ten voices in my head are telling me not to shoot.” It wasn’t so funny in light of what just happened at the Budweiser plant. Similarly, my CHOOSE DEATH bumpersticker which was a thumb in the nose to prolifers and their “Choose Life” stance that they wanted to get put automatically on license…
We went to the Ogden last night for a wonderful tribute and celebration of Eudora Welty. Three folk musicians were on stage in the new addition, which is grand sandstone building designed by the 19th century architect Henry Hobson Richardson (a Louisiana native whose designs are sprinkled around the east coast and this is the only gem he left for his beloved city of New Orleans). The museum has tunneled over to the building and…
I got a call today that my mom has a life insurance policy – this one is different from the one that helped pay my half of the burial. This one was a small policy naming my sister and I as co-beneficiary only the insurance company has been trying to find me since December 1st after my sister contacted them to say my mom had passed. The woman at the company said they have been…
So I was explaining to our 8 year old neighbor, who is a vegetarian, that kosher laws require humane treatment of animals and have strict slaughter rules requiring as little pain as possible to the animal. We are what we eat remember. So it’s with fascination that I’ve found myself at the Kosher Cajun Deli looking into their meat and poultry case. Are these grass fed? Yes, the woman behind the counter says. We carry…
I’m basically food obsessed and as I mentioned in an earlier blog I found out only after Food Inc. and Michael Pollan’s writing that there is a reason for my obsession and it is called the food industry which has turned mere food into categories of protein, carbs, fat or Vitamin this and that. I’ve often thought that I needed to go to classes to get better informed about food but now I find that…
Yesterday, Tin was drumming on the front door wanting to go out out out but the rains were coming down in a deluge that could only be imagined by someone contemplating the end of the world and Noah and arks. We live here in New Orleans on the edges as the sub for Michele was telling us in yoga – her name is Jackie and she works with Angola prisoners who are mainly in solitary…
Steve came to stay at the LaLa while we were in Spain – you’d think someone who knows New Orleans’ summers would make no effort to come during July/August but he says he likes the slow pace of summers here and I have to agree – there is something about the city when there are not eight million festivals going on (albeit Satchmo Fest just passed) and hardly any tourists are crowding the French Quarter…
1 . I have caffeine aversion or rather let me put it bluntly, when I have caffeine people find me averse. While Tatjana was in NY she picked up another cake of premium pur uhr tea for me and so I was trying to use up the dregs of what I had left from the last cake she brought and I was overdoing my caffeine intake. This pur uhr has the most richness for being…
If you’ve never read Bartlby the Scriviner then that phrase might not have the repetitive weight that it should have – I would prefer not to is Bartlby’s moniker of a sort and anyway it is the phrase that I’ve adopted for nearly everything since back from vacation. I was in the land of the free (Spain) and now I’m an indentured servant (New Orleans) with nothing but an endless amount of work, chores and…
It must be a slow summer news streak if the only news that seems to be breaking through is an alert that a fish had oil levels in it in the Gulf which could indicate the whole kit and kaboodle is toxic and we’re going to hell in a handbasket, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s babydaddy is running for mayor up in Alaska, and there is a spread of new super virus bugs coming out of Asia…