John Stoss’ Whatever Passes for Love is Love is a primer for anyone who wonders what it is like to be part of the fabric of New Orleans. The drama unfolds inside the Maple Leaf Bar and into a few pages you begin to imagine you are sitting there on a tottering bar stool, smelling smoke and ash, listening to the droning of those intent on living their couch potato lives as public fixtures. But…
Never, ever go to a Tiki Party again. Never, ever drink fruity cocktails with lei decorated straws, ever, again. Never again.
Fidel’s death is still not confirmed but HIGHLY SUSPECTED now for months. You read his obituary here first!
Fidel Castro just died and so too his and Che’s dream of a new order. My family in Miami might spit on me for saying this but Fidel achieved in a short order of time a total revolution – he brought literacy to the people, he brought equal opportunity, and sadly he lost sight of utopia and he became more and more removed from the people themselves and soon there was equally no opportunity and…
I went to a study group the other night on Rudolf Steiner’s Education as a Force for Social Change and for those who don’t know Steiner called his philosophy spiritual science. This may come as an oxymoron for some, but it doesn’t for me. I often describe myself as a secular Jew, but only a few people really get what I mean. I was listening to a Bill Moyers podcast on my bike ride out…
I keep getting these spam emails about baldness – hmmm, let’s see, I wonder why. Yesterday, I went over to Swirl to hang flyers for Waldorf’s open house and a friend told me that another friend had said my hair was starting to grow back. She looked at my smooth pate and said, um, I don’t think so. I yam what I yam.
When I returned to New Orleans after being in California for sixteen years, I was taken aback by Margaret Orr, our local meteorologist – she looked fabulous. Not to mention she had become a redhead, my own personal favorite shade. So yesterday, when I was in Saks getting my Kiehl’s moisturizer and I ran into her I said, “You know Margaret, I have to say you look stunning – I mean you are more beautiful…
October 12, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) There is a lot of love swirling around you today, so why don’t you reach out and get some of it for yourself? You deserve it. Start showing yourself the affection you want other people to show you, in whatever way you feel that it’s appropriate. Buy yourself a nice present, take yourself out for a great dinner, or book yourself a day at a spa. You can’t rely on…
Down the street at the church on the corner of Canal and Jeff Davis is a marquis saying, “Live a Worthy Life.” Tall order, I say. We’ve started a Rudolf Steiner study group at Waldorf and the first group met for the first time last night and the book we are studying is called, “Education as a Force for Social Change.” It is a series of lectures Steiner gave leading up to the opening and…
I was speaking to an ex colleague today about stretching our writer’s muscles again, about new opportunities, and about the brave new world of social media. And the truth is that I’m passionate about all of these things, but my main job right now is Mom and for that I’m grateful. I pick up Tin every day from school and we have different activities – on Thursdays, it’s Kenjy time, on Wednesdays is Jerrod time,…