FOR THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you have is a tedious delusion, a hobby like knitting. Work is what you have done after the play is produced and the audience claps. Before that friends keep asking when you are planning to go out and get a job. Genius is what they know you had after the third volume…
Okay since I got started on this horoscope thing, I might as well carry it out. I asked someone for a recommendation recently and they mentioned that I am creative – but god knows my creative spirit seems like it got doused with gasoline and lit on fire and only the embers have remained. So when I was set with a task recently, it was amazing to me how much the task whet my appetite…
We were supposed to be watching Treme but much like everything around here, T changed her mind and switched Netflix’s next in line to Big Love, which sort of vexed me at first since I was all set to watch Treme (just like I had been all set to watch Dark Shadows when she pulled the plug on that series) – T’s a Libra – they are supposed to be balanced since that is what…
It was Monday on steroids – so much to do I couldn’t catch a moment to reflect on how the hell I got so busy in my life. Tin woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided to take it out on his nanny. At some point having glued myself to the computer I just had to walk away finally at 6:30 – 12 hours in front of the damn thing –…
Last night, I ran through a series of richly detailed dreams about the bayou, the portage, the history of this area that I call home, and I found myself moving in and out of historic homes and meeting people from all times. It was quite an incredible night that perhaps was brought on by conversations of late about conservation, about a tour I took with the Preservation Resource Center as part of the Kid’s Event…
New friends just moved here from California, they called to say it’s hot! Um, well, yes, it is. There is only one remedy for heat – a pool.
My talented niece sends this from in front of Stonewall the night New York decided to allow gay marriage: WDSU gave Re-Bridge some air time on Saturday night, even though I have a correction – there has been structural work but not for over 50 years.
I am a wedding professional after being married three times, and I was reading about all the new versions of weddings where brides and grooms all over are mixing it up with gender bending twists on conventional protocol. I’m here to tell you that is so yesterday because in 1990 when I got married to Steve on Telegraph Hill, my maid of honor was my good friend, Doug Villepique. So all of this hoopla about…
Slang for a domineering woman is a battle-axe and the vehicle of choice for every battle-axe should be a Ford F150. I bought mine right after the Federal Flood and it helped me rebuild the LaLa, evacuate my family multiple times, and is the best utilitarian but luxury vehicle a woman could hope to own. Yes it is environmentally unsound, but remember I don’t drive it because I work from home and when I do…