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…
The super storm on the East Coast seems so far away and removed from our lives down here in New Orleans as we regale in the beauty that is today. Tin was out of school so a bunch of his friends came over and we made pesto fresh from the garden, and we ran races on the bayou in the sunshine, we inspected spider webs on the Magnolia Bridge and we ate snacks and played…