Krewe du Vieux rolled tonight in between thunderstorms; the first parade, one of my favorites, went unseen as Tin started coughing early this morning and pretty much went to bed this evening coughing. There are other parades, I told him. Other marching bands, I promised. Thank god is all I thought. We go to a handful of parades, so they carry more import than they possibly should, but whatyagonnado? We live in New Orleans where…
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I feel suspended on the high wire having let go of the bars behind me and not yet fully gripping the ones in front. I’ve gotten my hands into six pods – three revenue producing, three community projects – all worthwhile. I’m getting ready to head to New York next week and see clients. I’m writing out the narrative of a video I want to work on. I’m organizing a few events for my community…
A few years ago someone told me they had read an article from BlogHer which said you should post at least five times a day to maintain a healthy blog. I’m not sure if a) Blogher said it, b) it was actually five times a day, or c) why I have tried to adhere to this tenet for as long as forever. Today, I was watching a video interview with Lisa Stone, the cofounder of…
I’ve been listening to past Bill Moyers interviews and also getting back into the groove of my walking. A neighbor loves to take urban hikes and I wish I had the time allotment to do more of them. This morning I received a pop up message from a friend and neighbor on Facebook, the message was hard core raunchy and I was taken aback and then realized it was not her at all. Someone had…
About that post that was circulating about life isn’t fair, well it should be. I was walking through the park this morning and listening to Bill Moyers interviewing Anna Deavere Smith about her play she does called Let Me Down Easy where she channels 20 characters from around America and this one about a Charity Hospital doctor during the Federal Flood just hit me like an arrow through the heart.
I came across a person I just met who has been acting rather cold and stiff after this initial warm fuzzy and I thought to myself, self I thought, did I do something to her to deserve this cold shoulder. I shuffled through the card deck of all the culpability that I might have in this life or another, and came up with a few items that might be dusted off but nothing specific. Then…
Recently, someone I know has been acting shamefully and it’s interesting to me that though others have noticed it too, no one really gets that shocked by shame. In Japan, when they put up traffic cameras, people were so concerned about being on camera for a violation, shame drove them to submission. In America, many of the photographs taken with the traffic cameras have people flipping the bird. Today, walking through City Park, I saw…
I have spent countless hours in electronic triage and yesterday was no joyful ride again. 12 hours of trying to recover data from Notepad after upgrading to Lion, of trying to get the iCloud, iPhone, Apple Address Book, Google to sync contacts and rid myself once and for all of Outlook, and trying to change my Apple Id resulted in twelve long hours of misery. The end result is that I was able to get…
I met two of Tatjana’s longtime friends this weekend and we had the weird opportunity to work on a project together – mainly putting up the Nolli Plan that I have been moving from place to place for about 15 years. Mind you, they were coming here on vacation and had little advance knowledge that a project of this size and scope was awaiting them. It was awkward to think guests and friends were going…