I told you I didn’t like snow, not one bit. And now snow has paralyzed Europe and cancelled flights and wrecked havoc across all major European airports. I’m crossing my fingers the flight from Zagreb to Paris tomorrow is smooth and there is clear sailing through the Charles de Gaulle airport. Good grief. Who wants to travel in the middle of December? I ask you.
My brother is obsessed about the fact that China is buying up tons of gold and he wants me to answer why they would be doing this. I don’t know. My guess was that China is not cooperating with the rest of the world and so they are affecting currencies and so as the dollar stays down, gold stays up. He says that what is keeping gold up is China buying it. But why? Anybody…
So last night I had this really interesting dream where I was preparing to enter the office of a potential business partner with this business idea I have and was feeling pretty confident and chipper, and then when I started to go inside, I fell down a ravine, and had sticks and leaves and brambles all in my hair and people came out to dust me off and then we walked into the meeting together…
I’ve always marveled how some of the smartest people I know are lousy spellers. Isn’t that odd? I got this note from T just this morning after she had held up the Serbian slippers that Tin was wearing and a pair she is bringing home for me: we are coming with eastern european sleepers A parapraxis maybe, but I call it phonetical confusion brought on by being raised with a language where you spell what…
Last night the moon was gorgeous as it rose over the horizon beyond the bayou – the light was especially magical. But there was a melancholy mood in the air as one neighbor’s house guests were getting ready to depart this morning, and my other neighbor learned a good friend had lost his battle with cancer, and I was getting tired of my empty house and Tin’s toys being so perfectly arranged and Tatjana’s side…
I had a long heart to heart with a friend today about mothers and being a mother and it is always interesting to me to see how children expect so much from their parents – they hold them to these impossible parameters and when they find out their parents are human, they are disappointed. It is almost like finding out you are human and the disappointment that comes with that realization. Today I was Skyping…
I was walking through City Park and it was a beautiful day and the cormorants were hanging from the naked tree like Christmas ornaments, when I noticed a well dressed couple walking towards me, and I veered the dogs to the right to let them pass, and the man stopped and put his arm around the woman and looking towards the tree, said, “Look, vultures.”
I went to the Prytania Theater yesterday to see Social Network – it was so nice to be in a real theater, with the big screen, and the pomp and circumstance of the curtain opening and closing. The movie was actually good, I was surprised at how good. And Justin Timberlake – was, well yum, but besides that he can act. It made me think about Facebook in general, as one actress said in the…
What We Have Done My mother shrugged off life Three thousand miles from Paris, City of her birth. It takes Two weeks of bureaucratic tape Before I fly her scant remains From Buffalo to this historic place, May 9, 1975, a fine night For being scattered, if ever There was one. Co-conspirators, We creep beneath the Pont Neuf, My mother and I, she beneath My coat in a cold container, And then I dump her…