From the vantage point of the Sky Bar on our mega cruise ship, we looked out over the baking bodies lounging by the pool and spotted what we nicknamed The Real Housewives of Miami – social Xrays with leather tanned hides wearing gold Rolexes that sported diamond bevels, a diamond infinity pendant, the right shade of red toenail polish, and perfect French manicures. They were lusting through magazines ripping out tear sheets of merchandise to…
I could rant for days about the excessive amount of food eaten on this cruise, or the crowds at the pools and jacuzzis, or the entertainment by the Sea Group (read: c group as in best of the worst ice skaters, musicians, dancers) but like all things painful, you forget, and what stays in your head were the best parts. To me those were the sunrises and sunsets seen from the wide open sea. Sunrise…
I did the unthinkable and went on a cruise. The venue was forced by my austere budget constraints coupled with my desire to take a break and spend time with a friend. I think that all of my reservations about taking a cruise were confirmed and perhaps amplified, but like all things in life the experiences shared with a friend made all of them resonate with laughter and memories. When I say cruise do you…
To be back home again. Here are things you don’t hear at sea: dogs barking cats body slamming into doors birds singing jet engines cars sirens alarms little boys shouting “Superdome!” “Marching Bands!” “Louis Armstrong!” “Cuddle Bug!”
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.–Great God! I’d…
I went for a stroll this morning with Loca because both of us had gone to bed early and we were up before the chickens. The bells haven’t been ringing at 6 for some reason or at least we haven’t been hearing them. I was taking Loca alone so I would not have to contend with the drama the two dogs cause together and was running but I found Loca is much calmer when we…
A woman, an artist, I knew because she was the neighbor of a friend of mine killed herself last night. I wrote about her a year ago because I had just seen her on the bayou cut up and bruised – she said she had taken to bare fist fighting with some young Hispanic guys – and my heart sank. She was in a world of pain. I emailed my friend to see if there…
All things that are born out of fear seem to be what’s wrong with the world in general. And now a study shows what is a “duh” to most of us, conservatives are more fearful than liberals.
People around here are intrigued by the name Tin which is a derivative of Constantin. Similarly, I call Tatjana sometimes Tanja because that is a diminutive in Croatian of her name (pronounced Tonya). But my favorite are the nicknames you can glean from the Obits here in New Orleans – just this week Ernest Joseph “Poncho” died, so did Louise F. “Ace”, Tilman “Toe-Joe” was mourned by his brother Wilfred “Pinkie” and Reginald “Big Reg”…