When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world. – John Muir A colleague recently told me to embrace those people around me into my process or suffer. I spoke to a new person who said, “Slow down, I have time.” A dear old friend just advised me to bring others into the fold this morning. Obviously, I move too fast and that tends to…
ReBridge is hosting a kid’s event called Bayou Bridges Breakfast: Come Learn with Us that promises to be a fun-packed learning experience on Saturday morning, June 25th at 9 am. We will meet by the oak tree at the foot of the Magnolia Bridge (Moss and Harding). Parents might want to bring blankets and/or chairs. We’ll be serving the kids breakfast donated by Fatoush Restaurant, Coffee Shop and Juice Bar and Terranova Brothers Superette and…
Yesterday, a good friend of ours came over to cut Tin’s hair. I have been taking him to this really cool salon in the French Quarter but honestly nobody there wears their hair natural – its all about buzz cuts for boys and relaxers for the ladies, so I called the one person I knew who could deliver on the afro buzz – Darrin Butler to the rescue! Not only does he sport the best…
So you have heard me lament about the dearth of plays here in New Orleans, I mean we have drama but not up on stage hardly ever. When I heard the Brennan’s were wanting to take over part of Le Petit and put a restaurant in this beloved space, my spirits just sank so low I could have spit. Yesterday, there was a rally at the Columns Hotel to save Le Petit from becoming yet…
I’ve been feeling like a snowball lately rolling down a big glacierous mountain and that is not just a comment on my weight. Honestly, I’m feeling a little more svelte than usual having given up the gin and tonics. No I’m speaking about emerging from this cocoon that I had found myself in, this cloister where I was not able to grow one iota – I was about to be a dead moth trapped in…
Tin has been an utter joy the past week, sweet, charming and full of good spirits. Quite an instant presto change-o from where we were just a mere week ago when I thought I was going to have to take the poison pill to get me out of his misery. But toddlers are pretty transparent – if he doesn’t want to do something he will bite, kick, hit, and scream. Other adults I’ve known are…
We had a good monsoon yesterday, New Orleans style rain, the kind where the sky crackles and a gut pouring of rain comes down in sheets all of a sudden. Love it. Love the rain in New Orleans – it’s one of a kind. The city has been in such a sorry state without it recently – the grass is drying up along the bayou, the Queen Palms in my yard were looking a little…
It’s raining, it’s pouring – listen to this beautiful Turkish rendition of Jose Feliciano’s Listen to the Falling Rain.
The other night my friend was sitting at dinner with her great niece who was giggling about the name of our cable company, Cox, obviously confusing it with cocks. Poor Cox, it is no laughing matter. I received my USAA member magazine that lists ways to save money instantly and the tops on the list is cutting the cable cord. Since around here we watch like a nanosecond of regular TV and the rest is…