Putting one foot in front of the other
We posted the house on Craig’s list as a one year rental – we’ll see. This way, I have more than week to week to figure out my life or work on my groove.
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Month: May 2012
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The whole world
In the South, the whole world exists on the front porch. We take this for granted in New Orleans. Porch sitting is a way of life down here. But when I was young we lived for a time in Manhattan, near Washington Heights, and there and then people used to sit on their porches stoops too. Yesterday, we did what we do normally – we waited till the sun was low and then we went…
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Biting into desire
I was pulling weeds out of the driveway strip and a woman crossed from the bayou with her dog and said, “Is this your house?” She then said she had just moved to the neighborhood and had been admiring this house every day she takes her bayou walk. I bit my tongue and said, “Thanks.” The LaLa Drama is always about – the latest is I wanted to hang a simple sunshade on the back…
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The salad days arrive
Tin is out of school for two weeks before his camp starts and before we leave for Europe. So for two days I decided to have pool day and have a couple of his friends/classmates over since they are out as well (in turn they will have Tin over – so what goes around comes around). His two best buddies were over and one of them brought a friend and of course, that tilted the…
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Home ownership just might be overrated
A friend of a friend was here today – we mothers with kids out of school pooled resources and I have two days – today and Friday to have the boys and then they get distributed through the rest of the week. She began telling me her story about the house she designed then spent her last red cent on and then how she did not have to do things once or twice but actually…
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A closer read
The Times Picayune said it will shuttle their daily paper and deliver only three times a week. Well, maybe that is not such a bad thing – today I spent my morning coffee time instead of watching the bluebirds in my garden reading about a guy who ate the face off another guy (the victim was, of course, from Louisiana), a child’s birthday party that ended with one kid and one mother dead, and others…
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Blood letting
I went for blood work today and since my new doc wants to do tons of lab work on me there was lots of blood to be let. Now to go find someone’s neck to suck so that I can replenish.
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Saboteurs, Appreciators, and Captains
In the world of Life Coaching there are all sorts of names you give the tokens you are moving around on the Game of Life. The Captain I had visualized as a Stick Figure, which fit the game perfectly since I’m hairless and starting over and a Stick Figure is as elemental a drawing as you can get. So I can dress, put hair on, make my Stick Figure into anything I want my Captain…
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I err therefore I am
A few years ago someone put up little wood signs all over New Orleans on telephone poles, trees, and anywhere else they could nail these plaques to that said: THINK THAT YOU MIGHT BE WRONG. Then Kathryn Shulz wrote a book about “Being Wrong” – watch her here on TED:
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Cresting the wave
After the complete discordance of a few weeks ago, we find ourselves with an amusing and loving 3 year old who loves nothing more than to read his books, come looking for us and “catching us” and who goes for his nap easily and who has taken to wanting to dress himself. Don’t look back, just ride this wave until it ends: