Last night I went with some friends to see the Pedrito Martinez Group at Tipitinas – the band was fantastic! Tight and this guy Pedrito is so awesome but the rest of the band is fabulous too – the woman on the keyboards – lord today! – fabulous.
My friend was riding around with me today and said that she is enjoying Thus Spoke Zarathustra and she was reading me passages as we drove around the city. I told her my favorite line is this one: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I bought a day pass to the Tennessee Williams Festival yesterday and I must say as conferences go, this one never disappoints. I saw four panels – ranging from New Orleans in the 1920s: Bohemia, Baby Dolls and Storyville, The Art of the Debut, Writers on their First Books, Creole Women and Free People of Color. I felt as if I had sat down and read 20 books after it was over. I learned more,…
or rather he never left. Yes, it’s that time of year again when the Tennessee Williams Fest is happening and there is a lot going on. Tomorrow’s roster is chock a block full of interesting sessions and I will be there to be inspired – from Babydolls to Creole Women to Free People of Color, I plan to spend my day away from the usual and steeped in the interesting. I met an incredible woman…
Yesterday was not a good day and let me tell you why, because I woke up cranky and that means that all of that bonhomie I’ve been espousing lately had all vanished when my eyes opened to greet the day. I conjured up a good many things that I could blame for it – not wanting to do what I had to do that day, having to resort to Option D on a project I…
Today was my last session with my life coach and here is my shout out to Danielle who helped me wrangle through the toughest year of my life and come out on the other side feeling passionate, confident, and brave and more like Rachel than I have ever been before. Yay!
This past Saturday was a year that I have been going to Danielle’s Zumba class and all I can say is thank god. Zumba has gotten me through losing my hair, selling my house, rearranging my life so completely different, and has propped me up until I got to today when my hair started growing back again. If I hadn’t been able to dance my way through this year, I seriously think I would have…
Today a friend looked at me very closely – we were looking at my wrinkles actually – because she owns Jake Aesthetics and is doing a peel on my face (results to be revealed very soon) – and she saw hair growing along the side of my head. Hair! She saw it! I feel it! Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there, hair,…
A friend told me about this book, Lean In, and wondered why it took her to tell me when it’s all over the wires – but I have to say in the little I’ve read about the book since she brought it to my attention I can only think that this book is a waste of the trees that were cut down to make it. And I will just sum up my reasons by this…
“The Invitation” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your…