Tomorrow is Saturday and like every day in New Orleans there is just too many events to do – there is the Treme Gumbo Fest, there is LadyFest going on and a parade at 4PM starting at Buffa’s, there is a friend’s 25th wedding anniversary party, there is live music everywhere, and there is a walk through at Carol Robinson’s gallery of Sandra Burshell’s artwork – some painted at the LaLa. I didn’t get a…
Tin has become a regular at Music for All Ages in Louis Armstrong Park so now the older musicians call him Pops. Love it.
We bought a great book about the Kapiti Plain and Tin fell so in love with it that he memorized it and loves to act like he is reading it himself. James Earl Jones did a version and it makes you wonder what his voice sounded like when it was Tin’s age.
I was up this morning at some ungodly hour and was sitting in the womb chair in the living room listening to the sounds of silence when I checked my iPhone and found this interview recommended by a friend of mine. And it struck me, as I read what Christopher Bernard was speaking about, about being a writer and not tying up your art to mercantile pursuits because it will corrupt it, how I’ve come…
Wow, I didn’t realize how tense my whole body was awaiting this election but I can tell you the minute CNN announced Obama had won, I felt my entire body loosen up and a big roaring yeeha came spilling out. We went to Kermit Ruffin’s Treme Speakeasy to celebrate and it was a packed house so we walked down to Bertha’s with our little group and were there when it was announced. I have said…
I’ve lived for a long time by a motto of fake it till you make it and that has served me well. Goethe said, “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” I think it is more important to focus on what you say, because it narrates the life that becomes. For a long time, I was saying I could do anything in life because…
Tin has been obsessed with trains of late so I decided to take him on a short train trip and the easiest destination was Picayune, Mississippi, which happened to be holding their Fall festival and so we invited his friend to join us and off we went. Logistically there were problems from the get go – we would have to leave at 7am and would arrive in Picayune at 8:22 and the next train home…
The election is tomorrow and in order to be able to fully cope with the final hours before the decision is announced, we are headed to Kermit Ruffin’s new Treme Speakeasy to watch the results on Tuesday night. In the meantime, Saturday morning it was such a wonderful day that we laid out on the bayou with neighbors and soaked up the last bits of warming sun and saw a neighbor and friend campaigning from…
As we enter the darker days, with the time change that came on Saturday, Waldorf is lighting the way for the kids as well as the parents. The early childhood classes held their ceremonial lantern walk as we made lanterns from paper, leaves, and paint and we sang songs about light, and walked through the dark halls into the fading light of the playground. What a lovely ceremony and a good reminder that Tin is…
I saw a guy with a tee shirt that said YOLO in big yellow letters and on the back – You Only Live Once. So my dear readers, that is the motto this Friday – not TGIF, but live a worthy life. Today was Tin’s teacher meeting and I learned that our little boy is a master builder, never duplicates any of his complex designs and loathes anyone to mess with it. He’s a little…