Matt Clark, the guitar teacher who teaches the kids at the Sound Cafe Music Clinic, wrote a song called Bent, But Not Broken in homage to New Orleans. He’s gotten an all star cast to perform and record the song: Ivan Neville, Paul Sanchez, Sista Teedy Boutte, and many more. All proceeds for the song will be donated to Silence is Violence. You can download the song from iTunes – it’s just 99 cents off.…
After years of avoiding my work space when not working, I am now trying to embrace the space. For instance, I had my neighbor who is an artist with wood make my beautiful writing table. All of the succulents that were part of Tatjana’s garden have now climbed up to the terrace to make our yard more kid friendly and to give these plants a hotbed to thrive in. I worked in a closet on…
Let’s see, there was the initial landscaping of the LaLa that got pretty much half blown away in Gustav and then in the subsequent snow we had that winter (wasn’t it that winter?), then I replanted, and then there was the next round of landscaping done mostly by me where I lost about half of the plants to a streak of freezes we had last and this past winter, and now this year, Marcela Singleton,…
Tin lays in bed at night and has his plush toys speak for him – “Superdome?” “Yes!” “Marching Band. Louis Armstrong. DRUMS!” “Oh no, fell down. Trumpet.” “Trombone. Tuba!” This morning for breakfast he sat in his high chair and told us an intricate story about Louis Armstrong, the Superdome, falling down on the bayou, milk, and a flute. He looks at us like there is something wrong with us for not understanding his narrative.…
We were speaking about the indiscretion – five long years and how one could tell so many lies. I said not many, but one. It is not easy to tell a lie, but once you do, you are faced with the ugliness of owning the lie or telling one after another to cover up the original one. To forgive five years of lying, you have to be strong enough to forgive the first lie. And…
The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)
Both of us got up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep and both of us had Mike Tyson on our minds. There was an article on the now reformed Tyson in the NYT magazine this Sunday and he said he goes to bed every night at 8 and gets up at 2:30 and then takes a walk around the neighborhood. The difference is that I had to wait till it was…
Listening to Crime Fighters on ItsNewOrleans right now and I have to say this show is right on. The other day my friend Jerri was talking up Tin and his advanced development and she was telling this to a colleague she works with and asking if he thought Tin is advanced, her colleague said, “Jerri, that is parenting.” And I agree, a child needs to be read to but when a mother is struggling herself…
The front garden is now planted – here’s a list of what’s in there: salvia greggii verbena ‘homestead purple’ asclepias tuberosa bronze fennel lobelia cardinalis lysimachia ‘goldilocks’ coreopsis grandiflora gaura ‘ballerina rose’
Most people think my new do is making me look younger. My doctor is conspiring to make me disbelieve I am fatter today than I was yesterday. Most of my friends these days are younger than me. Look here’s the truth, I’m aging – I’m going to be 52 as soon as April showers bring May flowers (uh, that would be me). The other night I dreamed that Steve was taking me to get a…