In Chinese there is a saying: With the blink of an eye, another month passes by. We bought Tin his holiday present early – a bike with no pedals. They’re all the rage for toddlers and enable them to skip training wheels and learn to balance on their own. Our neighbors were all out on the bayou yesterday, celebrating the end of the day, the end of the week, and the end of the working part…
In just a little bit Jews all over the world will take their last bite before starting a 24 hour fasting period. During this period god will open the book of life and so it will be written. Atone now, the street corner guy says with a megaphone. Or they blow a ram’s horn to signal the beginning of the high Holy Days. Here at the LaLa, the common Jew will start her fasting when…
The discord that is in the air, on the air, being aired is growing wearisome, wouldn’t you say? It seems to be that no one is taking joy in the ordinary anymore and now everything is burdensome. Oh and Steve Jobs had to go and die – the only designer of gadgets who could save us from our endless ennui. There are a lot of people standing on the streets of Wall Street calling for…
Today’s Tatjana’s birthday and on a whim I scheduled a gondola ride in City Park for lunch. Well, you could not have picked a more beautiful day to be in City Park and on this gorgeous, elegant gondola that was hand made in Venice, and especially when the pelicans, egrets, ducks, geese, swans, turtles all asked for you. We skimmed through the lagoons and under the bridge into the Sculpture Garden and ate sushi and…
Okay, I get to Mommy blog now and again, and this is Tin’s first unofficial report card home: Ms. Karla: I would also like to commend you on Tin’s manners. He is such a great kid! He talks about you all the time and at the end of the day when it is time to put their shoes on he gets really excited. He is such a joy! Reminds me of Miracle Baby’s report card when she…
I remember growing up and standing on the stoop outside my aunt’s house in Brooklyn when the first astronaut landed on the moon. I remember being in our house on Louisiana Avenue when JFK was shot. When MLK was shot. I remember when Bobby Kennedy was shot. I remember living through all of these mile marker events and I also remember sitting in the grass driveway forcing crepe myrtle blooms to decorate my mudpie. Yesterday…
Steven P. Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple, Dies Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder of the technology company Apple Inc. who came to define the global digital culture at the outset of the 21st century, died, it was announced Wednesday. On Aug. 24, Apple had announced that Mr. Jobs, who had battled cancer for several years, was stepping down as chief executive.
The other name for pay it forward is karma and yes, there is a bank of karma, and you best have enough chits in it. Lately, I’ve had such an outpouring of manna from heaven and I feel first, lucky, and second, that I deserve it. A friend was over at my house for a meeting on Sunday, she said I have a cabinet, I said I need a cabinet – next thing you know…
If you can fog a mirror, then you are hearing a lot of negative press these days, and it is infesting your brain. Two years ago, we were maintaining our houses the same way we are doing it now, only a little more joyously. Yesterday, when Rudy stopped by to tell me more about the termite treatment I need and the boards that I need replaced and the flashing that should have been put in…
The other day I was walking through City Park and noticed how the light was changing, coming in at the horizontal slant that signals fall. The ducks were leaving shadows in their wake. I sent a tweet to City Park saying fall is beautiful in City Park or the like, and they tweeted back, take a photo we have been looking for fall. I wrote back “how do you photograph shadows and light?” This morning…