T is sitting on the terrace watching the sunset and doing her work and I’m in here with my stacks. They don’t seem to get smaller and as a matter of fact, they looked ominous this morning and barely threatening this afternoon. Perhaps because it is Friday, after all. I passed a woman getting in her car this morning, she looked to be of an age that you might expect her to be retired, but…
In my last yoga class Aaron was saying that you are compelled to go to yoga for your own specific reasons – he said he first went to learn how to fly. I’d have to say most times I am blind to my intentions. For example, I didn’t begin yoga to accomplish anything much less did I have an imperative. I had taken one too many yoga classes in the Bay Area – none of…
The following is a list of restaurants that came up in conversation ranking the best places we’ve eaten this year in New Orleans. Mind you the first best place was everyone’s home as there were some damn good cooks in this crowd. But here is the list: Restaurant August – hands down the best restaurant in New Orleans – no one cooks like John Besh. Cochon Del Porto and A Mano – got one couple’s…
When we first adopted Tin, a good friend and client of mine sent him three Yankee onesies with a note that said, “Team selection is everything Tin” and last night, Tin dutifully watched the Yankees with John as they went on to win the game. Saints and Yankees – that is all ye need to know.
Henry James said, “Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” Last night, a friend came by to bequeath his childhood Tonka truck to Tin. When we told him we were adopting a little boy, he instantly took an interest in Tin’s life. He was the first to make sure Tin had a Saints warm up suit…
Tatjana turned 44 on Wednesday – a mere baby in my view – and a friend across the bayou is turning 55 today, but what’s age got to do with it? At 51 I have a deep feeling I have lived a life, but I also feel like the best is yet to come. I think about our friend who recently received bad news, incurable cancer, and now what? Would any little thing that I…
Remember you heard it here first, the motto for the New Year is Just Be It. I read this: If today’s average American is confronted with an hour of leisure, he is likely to palpitate with panic. An hour with nothing to do! So he jumps into a dither and into a car, and starts driving off fiercely in pursuit of diversion . . . . I thank heaven I grew up in a small…
I noticed a whole mess of dead worms in front of my garden. And was freaked out. Then my neighbor’s daughter from two blocks away had walked by and seen Tin on the front porch and said there were dead worms up and down the bayou, not just in front of my house. Why would there be so many dead earthworms? I looked online and the two answers were if you had fertilized recently (I…
I’d give to you a day just like today. What a lovely lovely lovely day.
Tin is getting to the point where he is repeating everything and weird stuff comes out of him that you are not expecting – he points at a SUV and says “BIG BUS,” or he has this weird Italian accent when he says MAMA, it’s like maaaa ma, maaa ma almost like a Felini character, and then he is starting to string together words and that is when we hit the Kid Chinese. Watch this…