The President sent me an email this morning. This morning, the President proposed the “Buffett Rule,” which would require those earning more than $1 million a year to pay the same share of their income in taxes as middle-class families do. This proposal makes sure millionaires and billionaires share the responsibility for reducing the deficit. It would correct, for example, the fact that Warren Buffett’s secretary currently pays taxes at a higher rate than he…
If the Saints hadn’t won yesterday maybe the mood around here would be different, but they did win and it seems like everyone is just up to their usual routine of daily life. It rained today. Fall officially begins this Friday although even that seems debatable according to a recent article I read. There is a meeting come up about starting a Time Bank here in New Orleans. I could throw a small rock and…
Years ago, when I was about to turn 50 years old, I had a TCA peel, which is an acid wash that takes a few layers of your skin off and gets you back to this baby like skin. It not only takes away old dead skin, dark patches, but it also removes for a time the fine wrinkles around your mouth, nose and eyes. Like I said, for a time, as the fine wrinkles…
I was hell bent on putting fun back into the day in the life and so Friday we had fun, Saturday we had fun, today, maybe not so much fun. Tin woke with a stomach ache, I helped a friend with their social media who didn’t necessarily want to be all that social, and then I got a stomach ache. Oh well, whatyagonnado? So just to be perfectly clear, tomorrow is fun day, not Monday.…
We went to see the sneak preview of the New Orleans Afrikan Film Festival at the African Museum last night and watched Mississippi Damned, a wretching but well wrought tale of growing up poor in the South. I could add growing up black, growing up gay, growing up talented, growing up different, growing up with people who are so stuck in a pattern of life that doesn’t serve any one of them. This is not…
Where else but New Orleans could you take your toddler to a music clinic taught by Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs on Tuesday afternoon at Sound Cafe, then on Thursdays to drumming in Fortier Park taught by Angela Bachemin, and then Saturdays to a brass band in Louis Armstrong Park with Sunpie Barnes? All for free. Children here are getting a world class education.
When we were in Spain, T1 taught T2 to respect the zone. She had a zone for her coffee and reading and he was to have his own zone in the morning which did not infringe on hers. One day upon returning home, Tin was on the sofa and I came over to tell him something and he said, “No mommy, you are in my zone.” Ahem. Today I watched as he moved stealthily into…
The Times Picayune Street Walker wrote about a stretch of our neighborhood and mentioned Re-Bridge!
Anne Flourney thought I was kidding when I asked to be in Louise’s head as a whisperer, but I wasn’t. Hell doesn’t everyone have a lot of voices in their head that are not their own. Take Wonder Woman who is constantly using my head to channel her awesome super powers. I told Anne, no I’m not kidding and she graciously said she would keep me in mind when Louise needed to speak like a…
Someone close to me once said that I have had so many leavings in my life that they have become second nature to me. Yes, I do take leave of a situation that is no longer viable, but I don’t do it so easily and certainly I do not wear the “taking leave of ___” as second skin, except maybe the taking leave of my senses, which occasionally I have been doubly guilty of. Yet,…