You are about to go on a journey and you realize a life of often traveling has stopped without you noticing it. You’ve changed your hair so much you don’t recognize yourself in the bathroom mirror at 2AM on your way to pee. You cannot lose or make peace with the 12 lbs that showed up like a fatty natty boo boo around you. Your toddler behave likes a angel when you least expect it…
Just got my Bill Lavender chapbook and in the beginning: French Quarter Haikus when daria reads a poem in russian I wish I’d never learned any language
My mother told me in all honesty one time when she was putting up with a lot of crap from her boss that “we all have to eat shit in our lives” and I said, “yuck, no!” and we tussled about that argument and then I went away and thought a lot about what she said, enough to still be thinking about it today. My father was the opposite, he was the kind that was…
Summer is when the blogging slows down along with the rest of what goes on around here. Big news in the Times Picayune is that China has built a bridge they claim is the longest bridge over water, the title that our Causeway Bridge has claimed since it was built. Meanwhile, yesterday a gator was rescued from our bridge and it is a mystery as to how he got there. Essence Festival rolled into town…
Why are do they have to crunch when you pick them up to flush them down the toilet? What good is that hard shell doing for them anyway? Makes no sense.
I wonder how many kids in the world out there get to be spoonfed by a world class clarinetist? Evan Christopher stopped by last night to bring Tin a book – Eric Carlisle’s The Foolish Tortoise, we love Carlisle for his prose and his illustrations – he writes very sensuous and moving stories. Tin was coming off a rough few days where a tooth he is cutting sparked fever, tantrums and an overall up and…
A good friend who is very attractive told me that I look like a lesbian with my hair short. Another friend told me I should have responded, “I know I am but what are you?” To which I have this to respond, if your good friend who is attractive tells you your haircut is not attractive on you, I think you pay heed. What did I do? I called my stylist immediately and got an…
If I tweet, text and Facebook, blog, and keep other blogs, twitter accounts, and the rest does that mean the quality of my missive goes down exponentially or does the ability to navigate through all of these mediums make you more adept at getting heard? I’d answer but I’m in a stupor from being in front of so many possible screens.
Tin has been sick the past couple of days and last night had a fever – he was so mellow and cuddly that we both kept taking a double take on him. I certainly like his little active self even if he is hard to cuddle. This morning he was cracking up and saying, “I’m funny,” to which I told him, if you do say so yourself. Then I saw a good friend of mine…