My cardiologist never called me back even though he put me through the paces of all these tests. Come to find out he was waiting for the end of my monitoring my heart for 30 days, and I had to confess I sent the damn thing back after only 10 days. I said it gave me more anxiety to think about my heart beats and monitor it than it did not to. I’m not sure…
A while back I was up at some friends’ cabin in the Sierra and I professed to have led an unconventional life having grown up in hotels in many countries to a father with gypsy in his blood and a mother who was willing to suspend her disbelief. But my friend relieved me of own fantasy and reminded me that I was married and middle class and there was little about me the resembled the…
Before when parents would tell me they never saw movies anymore, I didn’t have a clue, now I know. I went from being a movie whore to being movie deprived except for Netflix. But today we ran to see The Social Network and found out it has left New Orleans and so we ended up watching Burlesque – which we gave a 7 on a scale of one to ten.
Is it me or is there more moss on the trees in New Orleans than normal? Uptown, midtown, downtown moss is thick on the oaks.
My mother always saw the world through rose colored glasses and that is what kept her sane because she could not suffer reality. I always thought I took a sharp, clear view of the world but then at 45 when my eyesight deteriorated and I couldn’t read anything and I couldn’t remember anything I realized my focus was not as crisp as all that. I went to the eye doctor and he prescribed new glasses…
The turkeys are safe at this house this year as we prepare to have our Greek fest on the bayou on Thanksgiving day. The weather is so wonderful it’s hard to believe that it is around the end of November and we are even talking about Thanksgiving but there you have it – the every day mystery of living in the Gulf South where weather is usually good. Our big dish will be fish, prepared…
By all accounts I’m a bull according to the horoscope that is – but a lot of times you could call me a bull the way I move through life (sort of like in a china closet) because I just have a tendency to go full on till I drop. I’m also a boar according to the Chinese horoscope and that is pretty much who I am as well, sort of happy as a pig…
I lost something on Saturday and it was important to me because it was a piece of my mom’s jewelry. I moaned about and everyone had a pithy response such as – let it go, it was meant to be lost, it’s not important. But it was important to me because while I was wearing it my family (her side of the family) all recognized it as hers and remembered very clearly her wearing it.…
It’s November 22nd and the cheese I unwrapped yesterday said it expires on this day. Which got me to thinking about from this moment on the end of the year will be here before we can blink our collective eyes. This week is Thanksgiving, then we are having our neighborhood Bayou Blunderbus put on by my neighbor where everyone costumes and rows down the bayou to a cook out down the way, then we have…
No really – it’s warm and sunny and beautiful outside and it doesn’t feel like fall at all. We had a glorious walk through the park this morning and even the weather for Thanksgiving looks like it is going to be wonderful – a mere 80 degrees – we’re thinking we’ll move our party out to the bayou as it was starting small and has now burgeoned to over 17 adults and a few kids.…