Upside down you’re turning me
When you wake up in the morning and the first thing that crosses your mind is what a beautiful day, you know that you are getting it right.
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Author: Rachel
Rachel Dangermond is an impresario and daughter of the revolution.
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The Monday Switcheroo
I got up this morning and walked the dogs in the pitch black of the morning and then came home to prepare Tin’s breakfast and his lunch. His carefully assigned breakfast and lunch. Monday is Egg and Toast day for breakfast and it is Tuna Fish and Cracker Day for lunch. These assigned days have helped figure things out and keep the whining at bay. Only after fixing all of this, I went to go…
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Fireworks in the park
Yesterday was a glorious day here in New Orleans and a neighbor/friend text me – Bike Ride? – and an hour later we were careening down the bike path that follows the bayou out to Lake Ponchartrain. Beautiful doesn’t begin to describe the ride (a large Louisiana pelican followed us in flight for most of the way) and there was even more reward when we got to the Lake and rode up the ramp to…
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Brave new world
The NOLA Timebank is up and running and today the NYT posted an article about a bartering system that is starting up in Greece. It all goes to show you that when the world is going to hell in a handbasket, people get pretty damn resourceful pretty damn quick. Good to know. Remember the saying that when a butterfly flaps its wings in Argentina, China gets a cold, well that is the world we are…
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A long childhood
I think back when I was a young child left with my sister and our nanny, Annie, the coifed water heater that was in our kitchen. My mother had painted a face and tied an apron around it and so was born our nanny. It was by accident that we stumbled upon the Waldorf School and enrolled Tin there, not that we hadn’t always heard good things about the school but honestly prior to Tin…
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The Dixster
I have delusions of grandeur and often thought on returning to New Orleans that I would become a columnist at the Times Picayune much in the same way that Herb Caen was for the San Francisco Chronicle. I had dreams of singing the praises of this grand old dame of a city and its denizens and culture. Instead I came home to monumental changes – Katrina and the subsequent Federal Flood, the decline of newspaper…
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Wonder Woman is Weary
TGIF and now I lay my head to rest. Well the Jewish New Year started with a bang and ended with a whimper because once again I took on too much and my head and body are reeling from the overwrought to do list that ended up zapping me of energy – and not exactly giving back any. I had an interesting conversation with one of the children’s mothers in nursery when I picked up…
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Digging the scene
Today is the second day of Rosh Hashanna – the Jewish New Year – it is the year 5772 on the Jewish calendar. L’Shana Tova Y’all. The weather has turned cool here in the Big Easy making it truly feel like September, and new, and holiday like, and well hopeful. I took Tin to drumming last night with Angie and Gingerbread and the drum circle beat to War, Huh, What is it Good For, Absolutely…
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Spot on
September 29, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Your bold new plans are the hot topic among your friends — although not everyone agrees on whether or not they will work. Go to the folks who you think are the most pessimistic and find out what they have to say. Encourage them to tell you the truth — after all, you can handle it. Accept what they have to say, but do not let their opinions make you…
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Shake the Devil Off
Well, I can tell you that I entered 2011 with great anticipation that a lot of what was plaguing me was behind me and a great year awaited. Well great years are tallied by not how much fun you had, how much you laughed and danced and sang, sometimes great years are made by how much you grow. And honey, this year, I have grown. I have grown weary, I have grown tired, I have…