I woke this morning with a rash on the side of my face and neck – a nice mottle of red welts. Who knows? Perhaps this is the beginning of the end. Hard to tell. Meanwhile, I ran into a guy who did work on my house when I was under House Arrest Distress working on the LaLa. He was so thin I almost didn’t recognize him as he was this big beefy guy who…
A little girl asked her grandmother yesterday, “Does Ms. Rachel know her son is black?” Grandmother responded, “I believe so.” Little girl, “How did that happen?” Grandmother, “I don’t know Ms. Rachel’s business, but I think he might have been adopted.”
You know we got started renting out the LaLa by necessity but it’s not as if I haven’t always wanted to be an innkeeper. What’s interesting is that (knock on wood) the guests we have hosted have all turned out to be wonderful, interesting and grateful to stay at the LaLa. Who knew that this was part of the journey? Even my new bald patches have made for insightful conversation with friends. One told me…
I have been in reasonably good health my whole life but I must say menopause and the aftermath – it ain’t for pussies (no pun intended). I won’t list the effects as you can find at least 34 of them listed here. Lately though, in reality, I have come up with some new symptoms to add to that roster. Loss of balance, lack of energy, etc. Today, I have added hair loss – my hair…
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…