Affirmation of the day
This too shall pass These too shall pass
Month: August 2010
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HFCS
I’m midway into the Omnivore’s Dilemma and decided to peruse the labels in our refrigerator feeling sure that no high fructose corn syrup was present anywhere because we don’t eat processed food and ah ha – I found some in the sweet pickle relish that I use for my tuna fish salad, I found it in the Creole Tomato dressing that I adore and now want to write them and tell them to change it,…
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Summer sedative
I’ve heard people say it’s hot in New York, and burning hot in Germany, and forget about Spain where all heat resides or Morocco where it is unbearable – at the end of the day y’all don’t know heat – New Orleans wrote the book on tropical heat. I always said that New Orleans was like having valium in the ether for me – I don’t need to self medicate because there is a spirit…
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Arch Enemy #1 – Flip Flops
From Havainas to Fit Flops, the latest and surely the dumbest craze to hit the fashion world, flip flops are as ubiquitous as the summer months these days. There is one problem with this picture – flip flops are the worst shoes you could ever put on your feet, you are better off barefoot. My podiatrist, Dr. Panepinto with Ochsner, said flip flops cause bunions, hammer toes and collapsed arches. Why? Wearing flip flops causes…
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Days go by
Tatjana is due home tomorrow and the house will be better off for it – when you’re the only one taking care of a little boy, two big dogs, one bastard cat and then you add two neighbor’s kids, you go plum crazy!!! All this while you have work overflowing from the crevices. Woooooo scary stuff.
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Release party
I wrote that last entry then came across this email from a friend that was sent at the end of 2009 – sounds like you could have a release party anytime you damn well please. I’m thinking with the 5th anniversary of Katrina coming up and the BP spill parade not on the schedule – that perhaps we should have a release parade? Hey People I love, Just thought I’d share something with you. If…
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The unexplained mysteries of the world
Letting go is hard for a lot of people – letting go of past slights, of unfulfilled dreams, of lives not lived – and I’ve certainly had my bouts of but why not? over the years. The one thing that I have learned in life is that holding onto something negative is toxic for the soul and the state of the soul begets everything else. My first divorce was painful because it collapsed into an…
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End the BP Spill Parade
My neighbor who calls himself a roving correspondent because I’m always speaking to him over my other neighbor’s hedge or from my porch said that he was puzzled as to why this City had not organized a parade to celebrate the capping of the BP oil spill. So unlike us, he said. We told him must be the heat.
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Neglecting friends
To have a friend is to be a friend or so they say, but I have to say in this modern life, I hope my friend’s text because that is the extent of my visiting friend time. I had one cuss me out over the costs of text messaging and of course, you know what happen, she never heard from me again. Look I don’t get a lot of time for a lot of things,…
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An end to Poocaso
Tin has new PJs that are take-off defying (no more Poocaso incidents) and look adorable.