Last night, we had new friends from Tin’s school come by to walk with us over to Bounty by the Bayou, an annual kid’s trick or treating event that the neighborhood association puts on every year. The streets are blocked off, free hot dogs are served, and the house and inhabitants are all decked out in Halloween spirit. The neighborhood does this after it does Voodoo on the Bayou, the annual fundraising event at the…
Maybe 52 is a good age to get rid of everything. Five to six contractor bags of clothes gone, five to six contractor bags of purses, scarves, belts, sweaters, and shoes gone. Medicine from years ago trashed. A baseball glove from the brother of my first husband that I must have been carrying around for what – 27 years? – are you kidding me? We have been going through this house and purging, purging and…
Last night a good friend was having a throw down birthday party and the neighborhood was having its annual event at the Pitot House (Voodoo on the Bayou) and we could not find a babysitter to save our life because every teenager in this city has a Halloween commitment or is at Voodoo Fest, so we opted for the friend’s party that started early and to bring Tin. Well whatyougonnado? When I tell you that…
My neighbor who is having an elementary school reunion (think about that) put up his annual fall decoration on the bayou. The autumn sunrises on the bayou are almost as amazing as the summer sunrises. The lone recession pumpkin got carved for Halloween.
Everyone is overwhelmed, well at least in New Orleans they are because no one can really understand what it is like when the “season starts” like it has in this city, there are overlapping galas, overlapping events, overlapping engagements and I’m telling you all this as Voodoo Music Experience has gotten ramped up and sounds like they are broadcasting from my backyard. Whoa, whatyagonnado? So today when I was bulleting the things in my life…
I was walking the spice aisle of Rouse’s looking for asafetida and couldn’t find it, go figure, then the clerk putting up the pickle relish asked me what I was looking for and I mumbled, “just an Indian spice but I don’t see it,” – what’s it called? he asked and so I said, Asafetida and his eyes got real big and he said, “Hasta la vista to you too, lady.” We belly laughed for…
All of us have blistered lips from Tin’s hand, foot and mouth disease – who said it was only for children? Nobody.
I was plugged into my computer for nearly the whole day, working on the past and working on the future and not spending a lot of time in the present. So at 6PM I ran downstairs, showered and got the whole family rallied to go hear Gal Holiday at the Ogden After Hours and it turned out to be a lot of fun. We saw friends, we listened to music, and afterwards we stopped at…
The history of Blacks and Jews goes back a long, long way and actually only in modern times did the cultures clash. So it with ignorance that this woman has posted this YouTube video saying that all Zionist Jews that run the Federal Reserve should be run out of this country. Someone needs to sit her down and give her a history lesson or help her with diversity training like substitute Jew for black and…
A friend writes to me today that she is concerned about the strong anti-Semitic tone the Occupy Wall Street conversation is taking. And I for one say, when in doubt, blame the Jews. In the world of WWJD, it would be rape and pillage right? I am not talking about that Jew now am I? No I meant What Would Jews Do? So there is some report issued in 1999 that said 50% of Wall…