Today and yesterday and the day before have been those kinds of crazy lunatic days where so much is happening that when I get in bed my mind’s eye feels like an iPhone going frame to frame with a slush. Seriously, I need a break. The good news is that I’m working on all the things I love but the bad news is that my loving cup runneth over. I ordered an iPhone to ensure…
Tatjana juggles, it is something about her that endeared me from the moment we met. She’s actually quite good with a ball – she was a national basketball player for Croatia, she’s good at handball; she just has great eye hand coordination. I don’t. I usually duck if a ball is headed my way. But I am the master of juggling proverbial balls in the air. Right now I feel like the Cat in the…
Yesterday, the bill came in for all the work that has been done on the LaLa and after I picked myself off the floor, I just thought to myself, well everybody and everything needs something. Right now, we have a son in school that needs help from parents, we live in a neighborhood with two historic bridges (watch this video) that need help, we live in a 100-year-old house that needs constant TLC, we have…
I was speaking to a friend of mine who lives down in Florida and plays one hell of a harmonica and he said he doesn’t come play New Orleans because we don’t pay our musicians enough. Lord today. That’s why I impress upon Tin that he has to tip the musicians when they play so nicely for us as we walk through the quarter. They’re our responsibility. Much like the bridges that I’m working on…
Evan Christopher put together a pop up jazz brunch at Clever today and maybe because he’s Tin’s godfather, he also made it a family friendly one. Playing with Evan was James Singleton on bass, Herman Lebeaux on drums, and Matt Lemmler on keyboards and when I say the joint was jumpin’ I mean it was on fyyyy ahhh. No where in the world was there a jazz brunch like this one for the kind of…
Last night we had an incredible celebratory meal, an Indian Thanskgiving, complete with pooris, red lentil dal, another sprouted dal, pork vindaloo, raita, carrot salad and if you can believe it, we ended with carrot cake. A feast that I’m still waddling around from. I was in a celebratory mood because we just received our first check for a rental! Yee ha. One of our guests has a habit of saying, “When it’s right, it’s…
I was reading a quote by a Czech guy who said Truth Will Prevail and was thinking to myself, yeah but whose? Then this morning I was walking the dogs along the bayou and it was just after the Susan B Komen Breast Cancer race and I was listening to Ram Dass on my iPod and right when he was talking about God and Satan going on a walk and God sees a shiny object…
What Would Jung Do? When one of his patients would come see him and say, “I got a raise!” or “I got a promotion!” Carl Jung would say, tsk, not good, not good at all. If they said, “I got laid off,” he would say, “Now, we’re getting somewhere.” Jung believed we cannot make progress, work on the soul, until we were faced with a crossroads or a meaningful event to shake us up and…
Someone tweeted yesterday that what you think and how you feel materializes some way in your body, in health or disease. Nothing could be truer because the last few days I feel like someone gave me happy pills, I’m lighter on my feet and gone are the tossing and turning nights. I feel like a thoroughbred that was getting trapped more and more into a tight stall, and I was pawing and snorting at the…
Okay, so a few months ago I began preparing my life for the inevitable which happened yesterday and let me tell you, the universe always provides if you have faith. I have so embraced change that I’m scary. So let me tell you some of the steps that occurred to get me to this point – I just went through my closet and loaded five contractor garbage bags the size of the Superdome with clothes…