We’ve sworn off of French Quarter Fest. I gave it a good college try two days in a row and for the umpteenth year in a row, I can’t get my groove on, so blech. Meanwhile, our neighbors put out a slip n slide and asked Tin over and pretty soon it was an entire day of slip n slide and bayou hanging with all the neighborhood children. Luckily, I had the opportunity to walk…
It is almost a week of taking a thyroid replacement and right now I could climb through this screen – apparently you may experience heart palpitations, you may take a week or months to regulate. In the meantime, they hope they get the dosage right. But just in case you are wondering what happens next – first you lose your hair and find out your thyroid is inoperative and now you take a thyroid replacement…
Today was gorgeous, breezy and warm, but I can tell what waits for us – SUMMER. Already just trying to make it through the day after having had the sun on my head makes me wish for cooler days. Throw on my shoes and take a walk – no problem. But soon this too shall pass – 6am will be the only time that feels natural, after that, bam, blotto, boing.
I went to the French Quarter Fest with Tin today and let me say, after a half hour I had my fill. So let me just say this about that – I sort of (hate to say) miss 2006, when everyone had given up on New Orleans and it was just the people who truly love New Orleans with all their soul who would be out there listening to the music, making and eating the…
I was able to get a minute’s worth of my own work together yesterday morning and then headed out to the first day and first ever Thursday of French Quarter Festival. There was a breeze and bright sunshine and I walked to the French Quarter leaving behind the stress of parking and cars and all that jazz. I flitted around the stages not hearing anything that made me want to plant myself and sit a…
I finished Jobs’ biography and I have had a tumultuous time with it, with him, and the whole notion of genius. I remember my Apple II sitting in the living room in that white particle board all in one shelves, desk, return etc. My Apple II – I remember that I had written several novellas and my floppy disk failed and I lost all of my writing and I got down on my hands and…
Another day to give into what is before you – a child out of school on spring break and therefore, the beach. We drove to Pass Christian in Mississippi and along the way stopped at Dong Fuong bakery for Vietnamese sandwiches to bring as our picnic on Henderson Beach. For a nice change, someone else drove, and we took a circuitous route through the Irish Bayou, and then over the Rigolets to enter Mississippi from…
I was speaking to a friend I met in the cyberworld the other day and we decided we are sisters from different mothers. And so it goes in life that you meet people, near you, far away from you, virtually, and even in books and so your life becomes this full tapestry of riches. Last night in preparing for a dinner party here at the LaLa which was wishing fare thee well to one of…
Okay, so I was living Plan A and plotting Plan B but WHO KNEW that I would bypass B and be on C but that’s how life is – curve balls you least suspect or they are curve balls because you least suspect. Anyway, Plan C – code named for Constantin a/k/a Tin is the new plan. See I waited 50 years until I was given a son, not unlike Sarah in the Bible, and…
A – I don’t know why I can’t leave a message on your website anymore – it’s not recognizing my own password on WordPress and the only alternative is to sign in via Facebook (blech) – BUT I love larb and have never had tofu larb – any chance you have the recipe – I looked it up online and couldn’t find it! Also greetings! R * * * * I don’t know either, Rachel.…