Tin was born blocks away from where Michael Jackson was born, and now lives blocks away from Louis Armstrong was born. I have to say I’m fond of both musicians. Today, instead of saving the toy trumpet for a Hanukkah gift, we gave it to him and you’d have thought we handed him gold. He has not let this go all day long and he keeps saying trumpet trumpet trumpet and improvising the notes when…
I walked the dogs this morning in the drizzle but that was better than the storm that we had all night which caused the electricity to go out in the middle of the night and made our bedroom feel like we were breathing stale air. I ran across neighbors on their porch because of the electricity, they were reading the newspaper (a vestige of the past) and I asked if the Republicans also took the…
Tin and I went to see his nanny’s Day of the Dead art show this evening. He saw her from behind and ran to her but when she turned and had her face painted, he sort of got the willies and backed off, but then he was compelled to keep going back to her. It’s odd to walk into your nanny’s house and see a side of her that you don’t see in her daily…
I went and voted today and thought about this whole election process. Is it me or are you just disgusted with the amount of money that is spent on campaigning – from the most local politician to the highest rank, it is really abhorrent to think about the money that is spent. Do you know what I heard last night in passing when T turned on CNN for a few minutes? That Sarah Palin will…
We went to a fun costume party on Saturday night and we met a pediatrician who told us some very funny stories but perhaps the most memorable was about a mother who said she was starting to feel ostracized because she was still breastfeeding her eight year old daughter. I’m still giggling about that one. But seriously, being a mother is a constant reminder to summon all the patience you can find in your body…
We’re in the midst of some weather transition and it is perfectly aligned with the time change this weekend. We’re not lamenting an end to summer, but we are to this weekend, which was so breathtakingly gorgeous, it was hard to get inside and stay there. As a matter of fact, when I got back from my therapeutic yoga class on Sunday afternoon, I couldn’t force myself inside so I got my neighbor to sit…
Jonathan Alter: “Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.” When I first became in charge of directing others’ work, I read a few books about leadership, not a lot, not Business School 101, but more like who are the good leaders and who aren’t – one tip I remembered is leaders lead by offering hope – and one thing I do know is that when you’re not hearing hope, you’re hearing the opposite.
With All Saints Day we have moved into the period of our darker selves, which will end around May day when we move back into the light. Dark is not necessarily a pejorative term here, you could think of it as your inner self, your cave, your interior. The dark quality of this period is usually countered with the candles and lights you encounter in nearly everyone’s religious holidays during this season. But it’s also…
We opened the partying season with Halloween here in New Orleans and now visitors beware, we now begin the every day is a reason to celebrate period in New Orleans that will not stop until next summer. So be prepared. Aside from Voodoo Fest, Voodoo on the Bayou, Krewe of Boo, Voodoo Festival, and everyone and their mother throwing a party for some reason or other and everyone costuming because it was the first opportunity…