I was walking by the Wildlife and Fisheries building across from the Royal Orleans and it was actually so beautiful outside I found myself almost like a character in a book that I’m writing in my head. I had walked by several young black men, all very, very handsome (the eyes of some New Orleans blacks are so distinctively ethereal it’s hard to describe, they are a lighter shade of brown, entering a gold or…
I ran into two women I see at yoga all the time and one asked me what are you doing here as I was at a panel discussion (Tennessee Williams Festival) on writing about music and the question seemed so odd and so I stammered, “Well, I’m a writer and you know, well what are you doing here?” The one responded, “We’re on the panel.” And then they moved towards the stage. I stood waiting…
So I ran into my first love’s ex who is a mystery writer and I said it’s sad about him, dead, hard to believe. She said I spoke to him for ten minutes and it was sweet. And I had waited by my cellphone but alas he was too close to death’s door to talk by phone. Instead a mutual friend had read him a note I’d written. Sad, I said. And we parted ways.
I was reading likethevodka and thought oh, this is so familiar. When I first got together with Zsa Zsa as my neighbor calls Tatjana, I thought this is deja vu becuase I grew up with my father who sounded like Desi Arnez times 100. “Why not read the sick-lopedia?” he would ask me. Meanwhile, we have survived into our fourth year of not understanding each other 80% of the time, which we chalk up to…
I was born in 1959 and if you are my age then you might remember the anxiety the Cold War produced in us kids and how I used to have nightmares about a plane crashing into the moon across an inky blue sky and then the world coming to an end. Well, I just got a notice from a kid’s site telling me as a parent how to reduce the anxiety in my child over…
Missing Persons report by NOPD Dugans was described as a Caucasian male, approximately 6’3” in height, slender build and last seen wearing a white long sleeve shirt and blue jeans. Dugans also has tattoos on his right and left arm and a tattoo of “We are the People” on his stomach.
Tin tooks his first ride on a streetcar today with his nanny. Finally, he probably thought, I’ve been saying “streecar!” for ages now.
A person who is 25 years my junior gave me this poem today. I’ve seen it of course many times, but isn’t it nice that someone half my age saw it and thought of me: “Our Deepest Fear” Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to…
Thirty-seven days to Jazz Fest, but who is counting? Today begins the Tennessee Williams Festival and this year we’re celebrating his 100th birthday. Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher have a new CD and they are playing together @ 6PM at the Botanical Gardens in City Park. Chuck Perkins joins others to kick off some spoken word at One Eyed Jack’s in honor of Tennessee Williams @ 8PM.