Battle of the Bands
From marching bands to boy band – yesterday Tin ran back to hit the drums at a friend’s house and then two other boys joined in. They were rocking out. What happened to our little jazz musician?
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Month: June 2011
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Tell me who you are
I was referring to a colleague the other day who changes her hair so often it made me think she was not to be trusted. I change my hair so many times that people around the neighborhood often tell me they have to look twice to know who I am. The other day I went to get my own son out of his crib and he said, “WIG!” Yesterday at a kid’s birthday party, I…
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Let go and let god
I had a myriad of chores I hoped to accomplish today but suffice to say it’s been one step forward and two backwards all day long. Tin has not napped all afternoon and we are due at a pool party under this threatening sky. Well, sometimes you just have to go with what is given. We met a lovely woman and her daughter this morning and I made a yummy loaf of bread. Tomorrow will…
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The road to nowhere
Tin and I headed out for a bike ride to see Lake Ponchartrain and we rode by the bayou, through the park, along the bike path and right before we got to the lake we had a flat tire, but then we met someone, a woman and her daughter, although I already knew the daughter because Tin and I had talked to her in the play area out back of the Montessori school that Tin…
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Porch crawl and parrots
Last night, I went around to neighbors’ porches lining Ursuline Avenue, possibly one of the most beautiful avenues in New Orleans as the majestic oaks that line the street provide the best canopy of shade anywhere. The Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association was staging the event as a fundraiser, but it seemed to me an excuse to visit with neighbors and try some refreshing cocktails at the same time. But after a few hours of…
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St Claude Avenue – keep it that way
PLEASE HELP THE BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM PRESERVE THE HISTORY OF TREME On June 16, 2011, the New Orleans City Council will rule on the proposal to change the historic name of the portion of St. Claude Avenue that runs through Treme to Henriette DeLille Street. The purpose is to honor DeLille, a free woman of color who, as a nun, was known for her charitable works. Most agree that she deserves further tribute. This section of…
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Good bye sex kitten, hello pixie!
I spent most of childhood, teens and twenties with a pixie cut. And then in my 30s decided to have long hair and into my 40s and now in my 50s – I am sick to death of the maintenance that my crown glory requires so I went back to the pixie late yesterday afternoon and oh what a difference to me. Like my neighbor said one day to me, “I used to be a…
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The universe provides
I saw a fellow dog walker in City Park this morning. She was the victim of an embezzlement scheme by her boss and right before retirement she got screwed out of her pension. I told her and I mean it that for some reasons I keep squaring up dollars and cents and the truth is that I have always had what I need so focusing on this amount or that is not beneficial. Instead if…
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We are family!
Last night, I did manage to scoot over to the Pitot House for Vino on the Bayou and to pick up a copy of Lake’s book. It’s an academic look at landscape design in New Orleans but still I was curious. I came home and there were a lot of options, go to Swirl and catch friends, head to Ju Ju Bag and see friends playing music, and we ended up with none of those…
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Oh, we will go a laying
I was walking through the park this morning and saw the two white swans and the one black swan swimming around the lagoon and then I saw a gaggle of geese on the newly dubbed Swan Island. I ran into my fellow swan watcher and asked him where the swan babies are, and he said, sadly, “They didn’t make it. Think these three were too young and inexperienced. They sat on the nest too long…