My Russian friend is want to say hope dies last and that is at least one note to end this year on. A Turkish friend sent this message: Umutlarn gerçege dönüstügü, saglk ve mutlulugun eksik olmadigi, basari dolu bir yeni yil dileriz Roughly meaning may your dreams come true; where there is health and happiness, the success of a new year has hope. For my Spanish friends, Prospero Año y Felicidad. Happy New Year to…
I walked through the park this morning with the dogs and along the way marveled at the pelicans diving for food beak first in the bayou, the cormorants sitting on the naked tree and all of my fellow dog walkers who were out before the rains. The air was thick with humidity and it felt like it was New Year’s eve for some reason – friends and neighbors greeted me from near and far HAPPY…
I could never get used to excessive Christmas present mornings – it just isn’t in my cards, but I could very well get used to this week between Christmas and New Years, where you have not quite finished nor quite begun. I started with a quick dog walk around the bayou, not our usual long one through the park because I wanted to get to an earlier yoga class, which was divine. T and I…
There is nothing more romantic than a Mexican love song, no? Watch this video, beautiful. Then again, how about an American love song by none other than Stevie Wonder? Watch this video. If you just want to watch someone amazing, watch Aretha looking gloriously beautiful singing a song written by Wonder. Here’s a video I could watch over and over, Evan (or EBAN as Tin yells his name every time he hears a clarinet playing).…
I read this obit this morning and smiled. What a great way to be remembered – making a killer stuffed mirliton. That is an obituary fit for a New Orleanian. We could all be so lucky. There is a guide in the New York Times this morning that says you should back all of your photos up to the cloud like Google’s Picasa – after my computer blow outs of 2010, I think it is…
We went out last night to celebrate my mom’s birthday in what has become a new tradition – dress like my mom – glamorously. I wore the fox stole my mother in law gave me along with mom’s jewelry that she gave me and got all dolled up in her honor – she was a snazzy dresser. Happy Birthday Mom! We then came home to learn that the first love of my life is on…
I’m borrowing that word from Oprah as she said it on her show once and let me tell you, it works. I just read this buried in a white paper on what to expect in the coming year(s): We are still in the very early stages of nothing less than the World’s Second Industrial Revolution.
LOS ANGELES – Sir Elton John is holding close a new tiny dancer. The piano man and husband David Furnish have become parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on Christmas Day. The news was first reported Monday night by USMagazine.com and confirmed to The Associated Press by John’s Los Angeles-based publicist. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate, whose identity is being protected by the new parents. Zachary is…
My mother would have been 75 years old today and I am thankful she was my mother and she got to know the people who are close to me – here is a few photos of our last five years together, the first is a jpeg of a note posted to Mom’s digital album that I kept updated for her, it is from December 2004 – the rest are five years of fun that I…
A friend was telling me in a note she sent that you just never know what is going to happen next. How true? Do you know that predictions for the New Year include huge hacking into personal information databases? Or that all of Wall Street is one big asset bubble? Who knows what is next. Picture this, in Israel, they may have found remains that mean evolution actually began in Israel not Africa: By DANIEL…