Change.org just sent me a petition to sign about a transgender woman who was beat in a McDonald’s as the staff cheered in the background. Sick people if you ask me. Meanwhile, I saw a car today with a bumper sticker that said GOD LOVES EVERYONE * NO EXCEPTIONS. So I guess god loves the sick bigots too. Damnation. The nun told me this morning that everyone in the world is too caught up in…
With his new haircut and sharpened skills on his flute, Tin again looked as if he was all grown up this morning. I have to say the experience of watching a little baby grow up has got to be right up there with the most fascinating thing I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime.
I never owned a pair of Birkenstocks and never bought a pair of Crocs, I hated those shoes and still do. I never owned a Keen sandal, they always looked so dikey, excuse the expression. But yesterday, I bought a pair of Vibram Five Fingers running shoes. This came after a friend was wearing a minimal pair of running shoes and said I should read Born to Run, and then other friends who run short…
The city was filled with Easter egg hunts and yard to yard our friends and neighbors chased colored eggs and large Chocolate bunnies. Three baskets were delivered for Tin from the Easter bunny of fun things we did not not tell him were edible. We spent our morning eating pancakes with friends and then flying a kite and staring at the clouds. Yay for Sundays that are lazy and familiar and seem to last beyond…
Yesterday, I joined my neighbor for a glass of wine right by the water. I brought my newly ordered Jazz Fest folding chair to test it and it worked so well, I wanted to just park my butt there and remain for the rest of the weekend. As usual on the bayou, no one sits out there without drawing a crowd and before you knew it we had a lot of other neighbors and friends…
I was at a party recently and the father said of his son who was playing in the sprinkler, “I haven’t told him he is black yet.” It was sort of a jokey way of saying that he hadn’t spoken about race with his son and before he could, his son’s classmate had written a poem about him, about he liked his son’s skin color, which made his son notice he had skin color. Friday,…
When we first adopted Tin a few people said he might play for the Saints one day. It’s the sort of thing people say when you have a son and the Saints are winning. But I was like NO WAY. I hoped he might be a musician or pursue any career other than being an athlete. So when his musical interests continued to wax I was smiling inside. Then I noticed everywhere we’d go that…
The nanny called in sick today and today is a holiday so it was serendipity. T had meetings so I took Tin to the Quarter to get his haircut by Cyril – what a trip – for one Tin calls him Cereal. This salon has got to have it’s own MTV show. Wild. Then we grooved with a lone saxophone player on Bourbon and found ourselves in front of a street band with swing dancers,…
I read this morning about children growing up with digital games and then spoke with Tete over Skype who had just gotten a new cellphone but was unsure how to work it although she was delighted to have it. The other day a colleague of mine wrote about introducing me to someone who is moving to New Orleans and for some reason what sprang to mind is a decade ago when I was covering a…
April 22, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Your increased exposure in the public eye will enable you to take a break from the internal dialogue that’s been bouncing around in your head for the past few days. Now you can turn off the heavy thinking part of your brain and spend some time skipping through the trivial, the shallow and the downright silly. Turn toward the external world with your arms wide open. If you can, go…