A friend was visiting this weekend and in a conversation he said, “A mom would think her kid’s the best even if he went out and shot somebody.” Well, that’s stretching it, but one thing that is for certain, ain’t no love like mama love. I was speaking to a friend today who recently lost her mother and since we both have just gone through this we were talking about how it sort of wakes…
We had a doctor’s appointment this morning and Tin did fabulous considering he had to get two shots. Since I opted for a flu shot too, I went first to show him what a big girl I can be. But one of his shots was a doozy, so after that he decided he knew no words to tell his pediatrician. Except when he did calm down, he looked outside and saw the big sign for…
L’Shana Tova everyone – tonight begins Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Growing up in an orthodox family, my high holidays were spent going to the synagogue with my parents, sitting underneath the widespread wings of my father’s tallit, and listening to his beautiful voice chant the readings with that wonderful Sephardic inflection. We had rhythm. I often yearn around this time, when the sun’s rays turn to a slant and the days grow shorter…
Who dat! Notice it is not a question mark anymore, it has become a declarative – Who dat! As the season opens tomorrow night with more hoopla that you could imagine in this city and this city has put on some hoopla, I’m sort of mixed about the whole thing. First, I was sort of unaware the season was starting tomorrow until clients, colleagues and sources started asking me if I was excited. Then I…
I was speaking to someone in a foreign country who told me they didn’t have access to something online because the government blocks the site. It made me think about Obama and how the big opposition to him and all the hullabaloo about whether or not he is a Muslim is not personal, it really stems from a fear of government. Reading an article by Maureen Dowd in Saudia Arabia, my stomach clenches at the…
The Ogden has launched their Start With Art kid’s program which combines music and art for one to five year olds on Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11. Tin and his nanny did this series three Wednesday in a row and it was great – he did his first craft projects, learned songs and more importantly he learned about classrooms, groups and museums. Donna’s on Rampart Street closed its doors. The times we saw Evan…
You know what they say about terrible twos – they’re horrible, yeah well there are terrible 18 months onward as well. Tin has entered the phase where he is frustrated by air molecules not blowing the way he wants them to and so it has become a little testy around the okay corral. My intuition and most of what I read all point to the same thing – do not respond to manipulative tantrums, and…
Petraeus Warns Against Planned Koran-Burning (NYT) By ADAM B. ELLICK Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said that plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on Sept. 11 could play into the hands of extremists.
Since we hired Tin’s nanny, we asked her to keep a journal of the day, for things that are helpful to know – how many BMs, what new words or discoveries were made, or anything pertinent to our understanding of how his day went without us. While my friend was here, he received a text message from the woman watching his cat. It went like this: Went to visit cat, she came out to greet…
Yesterday, for Labor Day, since the nanny was here, we took the day off and went with our out-of-town friends to tour the 9th Ward and then over to the Country Club in the Bywater. The Country Club is where I held my 50th birthday party, which was a blast and just so happens these same friends had come in for that occasion as well. Since this was Southern Decadence weekend and the Country Club…