I have been using Laughing Squid to host my website since 2005 and when I went to back up my blog I got a notice that it exceed the available free storage and that I’d have to pay. So I reconfigured my backup. Then recently my emails started not being delivered. When I inquired what was wrong they said that the standard hosting site is no longer capable of handling my traffic so I have…
So far this is going to be a year to remember – the latest Mardi Gras has been in 150 years and gorgeous weather, the first weekend of Jazz Fest in the 80s and sunny and this weekend looks to be a winner. Record crowds coming to this city. Maybe it took 5 years to really believe that we would come back from such utter devastation but you better believe it now.
Yesterday was the day of rest but Tin needed more rest – a four hour nap yesterday, a ten hour sleep and he was tired all day today – proving that you can’t make up sleep and it’s not as if he lost sleep except for one day’s nap but he just did too much. Now that the finger is coming off the pause button, and the remainder of Jazz Fest is in front of…
I was speaking to a wise new friend yesterday who said that she has begun every endeavor with the question to herself, “Why am I doing this?” So before she begins her work she asks herself why, before she eats her meal she asks herself why, before she engages in a conversation she asks herself why. This puts her there in the moment with intention. I, on the other, hand put myself there with intention…
Today is Tuesday and my one and only day to recover from what has been nonstop activity. Someone suggested I celebrate my birthday for 52 days, the age I am, and my response ARE YOU KIDDING? I’ve been celebrating for four days and I’m toast. In the meantime, Tin has been taking the longest nap in history – he went down without a fuss after singing the most incredible song that he made up that…
Sunday we did the hokey pokey at the wedding and last night, when I got home, and after putting Tin to bed, we set up a table for the boiled crawfish on the porch and sat outside on a beautiful evening to celebrate the remains of what was a very pleasant birthday. Good wine flowed, conversation was easy, and the crawfish were exceptionally tasty and zingy with spices. Afterwards we had cupcakes from Cake Bakery…
I woke this morning at 5am Eastern and sat on the screened porch atop the tree boughs in Hotlanta- such a lovely place my friends own there. I had my tea, my New York Times, and Tin was sound asleep in the portacrib inside. The birds were singing and I felt so good to be in great hands to start my birthday. Then Rosa, the cook, knocked on the door at 9 am and brought…
I wondered how it was possible that Prince William and my nephew could even fathom getting married the first weekend of Jazz Fest – I mean really? But I never suspected that when I woke this morning to my 52nd birthday that the news greeting me would be Bin Laden is dead. Okay. Pretty busy weekend wouldn’t you say? When Tatjana and I were trying to adopt we had to put together a 25 page…
Tin’s absolute, hands-down number one request is Salt Peanuts – yes Dizzy has passed the Holy Trinity of Evan Christopher, Louis Armstrong, and Trombone Shorty to reach #1 in the pantheon. Yesterday, when we were listening to the Hot 8 Brass Band and Tin was getting down on his trumpet, then trombone and drums, a woman gave Tin a hologram of Dizzy Gillespie unaware of the Salt Peanuts addiction. She said, “I have your son…
I, for one, am thrilled with all this new hat madness going on since the wedding.