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The whole world

In the South, the whole world exists on the front porch. We take this for granted in New Orleans. Porch sitting is a way of life down here. But when I was young we lived for a time in Manhattan, near Washington Heights, and there and then people used to sit on their porches stoops too. Yesterday, we did what we do normally – we waited till the sun was low and then we went…

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Biting into desire

I was pulling weeds out of the driveway strip and a woman crossed from the bayou with her dog and said, “Is this your house?” She then said she had just moved to the neighborhood and had been admiring this house every day she takes her bayou walk. I bit my tongue and said, “Thanks.” The LaLa Drama is always about – the latest is I wanted to hang a simple sunshade on the back…

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The salad days arrive

Tin is out of school for two weeks before his camp starts and before we leave for Europe. So for two days I decided to have pool day and have a couple of his friends/classmates over since they are out as well (in turn they will have Tin over – so what goes around comes around). His two best buddies were over and one of them brought a friend and of course, that tilted the…

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A closer read

The Times Picayune said it will shuttle their daily paper and deliver only three times a week. Well, maybe that is not such a bad thing – today I spent my morning coffee time instead of watching the bluebirds in my garden reading about a guy who ate the face off another guy (the victim was, of course, from Louisiana), a child’s birthday party that ended with one kid and one mother dead, and others…

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Saboteurs, Appreciators, and Captains

In the world of Life Coaching there are all sorts of names you give the tokens you are moving around on the Game of Life. The Captain I had visualized as a Stick Figure, which fit the game perfectly since I’m hairless and starting over and a Stick Figure is as elemental a drawing as you can get. So I can dress, put hair on, make my Stick Figure into anything I want my Captain…

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