Fidel Castro just died and so too his and Che’s dream of a new order. My family in Miami might spit on me for saying this but Fidel achieved in a short order of time a total revolution – he brought literacy to the people, he brought equal opportunity, and sadly he lost sight of utopia and he became more and more removed from the people themselves and soon there was equally no opportunity and…
I went to a study group the other night on Rudolf Steiner’s Education as a Force for Social Change and for those who don’t know Steiner called his philosophy spiritual science. This may come as an oxymoron for some, but it doesn’t for me. I often describe myself as a secular Jew, but only a few people really get what I mean. I was listening to a Bill Moyers podcast on my bike ride out…
I keep getting these spam emails about baldness – hmmm, let’s see, I wonder why. Yesterday, I went over to Swirl to hang flyers for Waldorf’s open house and a friend told me that another friend had said my hair was starting to grow back. She looked at my smooth pate and said, um, I don’t think so. I yam what I yam.
When I returned to New Orleans after being in California for sixteen years, I was taken aback by Margaret Orr, our local meteorologist – she looked fabulous. Not to mention she had become a redhead, my own personal favorite shade. So yesterday, when I was in Saks getting my Kiehl’s moisturizer and I ran into her I said, “You know Margaret, I have to say you look stunning – I mean you are more beautiful…
October 12, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) There is a lot of love swirling around you today, so why don’t you reach out and get some of it for yourself? You deserve it. Start showing yourself the affection you want other people to show you, in whatever way you feel that it’s appropriate. Buy yourself a nice present, take yourself out for a great dinner, or book yourself a day at a spa. You can’t rely on…
Down the street at the church on the corner of Canal and Jeff Davis is a marquis saying, “Live a Worthy Life.” Tall order, I say. We’ve started a Rudolf Steiner study group at Waldorf and the first group met for the first time last night and the book we are studying is called, “Education as a Force for Social Change.” It is a series of lectures Steiner gave leading up to the opening and…
I was speaking to an ex colleague today about stretching our writer’s muscles again, about new opportunities, and about the brave new world of social media. And the truth is that I’m passionate about all of these things, but my main job right now is Mom and for that I’m grateful. I pick up Tin every day from school and we have different activities – on Thursdays, it’s Kenjy time, on Wednesdays is Jerrod time,…
I strolled through the park this morning with the dogs and was listening to a Bill Moyers’ podcast where he was interviewing Michael Pollan. First, this is a biased statement I LOVE MICHAEL POLLAN. Okay, now that I’ve informed you of my bias, I’ll point you to the open letter to the President that Pollan took out when Obama was elected. Perhaps one of the best pieces of writing the New York Times has ever…
Tin has been really digging his bike lately as he is getting more balanced on it and fast too. He and his friend Jerrod took off zipping around Big Lake on Monday and we had to run to keep up. They only paused when they saw a bunch of kids playing on the Wayne Amedee sculpture and wanted to join them.
They say the early bird gets the worm, but today that was not true. It was day two of Tin waking up with nightmares and my lack of sleep. Everything was thrown back an hour or more. I ended up walking to City Park after 8 and I grumbled the whole way because that meant my swimming would be pushed out as well and then something happened to change my frown to a smile. I…