Evan Christopher put together a pop up jazz brunch at Clever today and maybe because he’s Tin’s godfather, he also made it a family friendly one. Playing with Evan was James Singleton on bass, Herman Lebeaux on drums, and Matt Lemmler on keyboards and when I say the joint was jumpin’ I mean it was on fyyyy ahhh. No where in the world was there a jazz brunch like this one for the kind of…
Last night we had an incredible celebratory meal, an Indian Thanskgiving, complete with pooris, red lentil dal, another sprouted dal, pork vindaloo, raita, carrot salad and if you can believe it, we ended with carrot cake. A feast that I’m still waddling around from. I was in a celebratory mood because we just received our first check for a rental! Yee ha. One of our guests has a habit of saying, “When it’s right, it’s…
I was reading a quote by a Czech guy who said Truth Will Prevail and was thinking to myself, yeah but whose? Then this morning I was walking the dogs along the bayou and it was just after the Susan B Komen Breast Cancer race and I was listening to Ram Dass on my iPod and right when he was talking about God and Satan going on a walk and God sees a shiny object…
What Would Jung Do? When one of his patients would come see him and say, “I got a raise!” or “I got a promotion!” Carl Jung would say, tsk, not good, not good at all. If they said, “I got laid off,” he would say, “Now, we’re getting somewhere.” Jung believed we cannot make progress, work on the soul, until we were faced with a crossroads or a meaningful event to shake us up and…
Someone tweeted yesterday that what you think and how you feel materializes some way in your body, in health or disease. Nothing could be truer because the last few days I feel like someone gave me happy pills, I’m lighter on my feet and gone are the tossing and turning nights. I feel like a thoroughbred that was getting trapped more and more into a tight stall, and I was pawing and snorting at the…
Okay, so a few months ago I began preparing my life for the inevitable which happened yesterday and let me tell you, the universe always provides if you have faith. I have so embraced change that I’m scary. So let me tell you some of the steps that occurred to get me to this point – I just went through my closet and loaded five contractor garbage bags the size of the Superdome with clothes…
Yesterday as I had said earlier was the landmark day and I had so much that I had been thinking about, but no time to sit and write about any of it because Tin was not feeling well and was in need of some major attention. So I put aside everything and sat on the floor of his room with him and played Legos. And then my friends came over with a bottle of champagne…
My horoscope this morning reads: Taurus (4/20-5/20) This day will be partly cloudy, but you should try to think of it as partly sunny to help yourself keep a more optimistic attitude. If the clouds get you down, communicating your feelings to others will go a long way toward coaxing the sun back out. Making verbal connections is almost as helpful as making emotional connections today. So even small talk (about the weather — what else?)…
This Sunday (23 Oct.), Evan Christopher teams up with Clever Wine Bar for the first ever “Pop-Up Jazz Brunch” 11am-3pm (music from 11:30-2:30). A special menu prepared by regional star, Chef Bart Bell (Crescent Pie & Sausage, Huevos) and a brunch cocktail menu with “Bloody Mary Bar” prepared by Clever’s own Tony “The Juicer” DiMunno will compliment the music, which promises not to be the ordinary jazz brunch fare. Throwing down with Evan are featured guests, Matt Lemmler, James Singleton, and Herman…
Yesterday was another whirlwind of LaLa madness – moving the gas pipe that was installed in the flash hot water heater to the outside of the laundry room to transform that room into a kitchen, which of course led to moving the dryer exhaust which had been improperly installed to begin with – all of this was going on under my office floor, when I tried to run out for yoga from having been in…