I was reading about someone who had a prayer that said, don’t help me to not have danger in my life, but rather equip me with how to deal with it. I’d say the same; yesterday I received notice that two big dogs had attacked a guy and his dog nearby and the whole neighborhood went on red alert. Most everyone responded with how can we help the guy, his dog, what can we do?…
There is not enough hours in the day to do it all so along the way you are constantly making choices – pushing stuff to tomorrow, rapidly finishing something that should have had more time spent on it, and then also there is the hot potato – every day seems to have a hot potato quality to it of some sorts – where you have your list, you have your time, and then someone throws…
I got up late of course – given the robbing of one hour of my sleep. I won’t get grumpy about it because it does mean that the daylight hours are longer and for that I’m forever grateful. Time goes by fast enough without having days that are dark late and early. Still I wasn’t in the mood for Monday because I’d overslept and so I went to walk the dogs with a twinge of…
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill I had mom’s day off today and was able to get on my trusted friend (read: my bike) and sail on down to the lakefront and take a tour of old familiar haunts. The good news is the lake is still there and it is beautiful even though I haven’t seen it except for the last time I flew into New…
Children approach the world with one big fat question – Why? By the time they hit adulthood they have learned to put away that question – Why?
The Make It Right Foundation is holding a big gala to raise funds for Brad Pitt’s pet project in the 9th Ward – our dear friend Marc Pagani is the photographer for the event (he deserves it). Pitt has been instrumental in helping the 9th Ward try to regain some of something. Meanwhile, the NOPD stormed a house suspicious of selling pot (read: WTF?), they arrested a guy with a pound of pot in his…
I went to Constance Adler’s reading last night of My Bayou, her book about her love affair with this neighborhood and the bayou. I’m in the book twice as a character – once on September 1, 2006 bringing ziti to Swirl around the time it had just opened and become a gathering/healing place for the people in this neighborhood and another time at Swirl, bringing my menorahs to light for Hanukkah since I wasn’t in…
So a while back having ridden the wave of divorce, deceit, destruction I decided to strip a few layers of skin off my face and start anew. Those posts about how that chemical peel went have garnered so much attention on my blog you’d think I missed my calling. This blog was even on a British television program along with the posts and comments by people writing in. I should have put myself out there…
This morning I took Tin to be tested to see if he is gifted. This was the outcome of midsummer looking into schools. I had scheduled it in June of 2011 for March of 2009, his birthday week. After enrolling him in Waldorf and learning more about the school, I thought why bother with this test – he’s 3 years old for godsakes. But a friend of a friend (who happens to be a child…
I ran into a friend tonight on my way to a book reading/signing by another friend – she told me she had gone to New York and that she wanted to confide in me that something strange had happened. She had had a dream six months ago about a man, from another country, whose name was ____. She met this man in New York and decided that the spirit world had brought her there but…