I thought I was finished with cussing when last night I went to bed with a hot cup of ginger tea I had made by slicing some fresh coins of ginger into a cup of boiling water, and then I spilled the entire cup on the bed, on Loca’s bed, on my slippers and so I managed to say more cuss words in that one moment than I had in two days of my cussing…
Yesterday morning, I spoke to a friend and without too many words we were both able to place our moods and thoughts. Yesterday afternoon, I walked down from my office while Tin was still sleeping, it was about 5:30 and the bayou was so vividly blue through my window that I was struck by the beauty. Yesterday evening, when Tatjana called from New York I put her on speaker phone to say good night to…
Last night I crawled in bed with William Trevor’s short stories reading about the old drunk who was a war hero and the unmarried vacationing on the Mediterranean leading their second best lives, and was so happy to be going to sleep early as I have been exhausted over the Mardi Gras period. Then Tin started singing from the crib, “Oh When The Saints – Go Marchin In – On When The Saints Go Marching…
While Wisconsin took one step backward, Illinois took one step forward in abolishing the death penalty.
T has flown the coup for the Big Apple and that means I get to go to sleep with the chickens! Or at least when Tin does. There is no rest for the weary (or the wicked from what I hear) so you gotta get it while the gettin’s good.
I was so into Mardi Gras, but today as I was headed to the gym and passed the folks from Treme filming behind the Mahalia Jackson Auditorium with a fake float and people in costumes catching beads I wanted to spit – DONE, my head shouted – no more costumes, no more beads, no more floats – for goodness sakes take it down the road. Then when I thought I had really had enough I…
I’m a great fan of Chuck Perkins, so don’t get me wrong about what I say here, these are purely my own musings. Chuck posted this to his Facebook page, but this didn’t sit right with me at all and not because it is exposing the underbelly of a root problem. I tried to slice and dice this statement of Chuck’s a number of different ways, substituting a number of different nouns and each time…
I decided to give up cussing for Lent and am putting $20 in a jar every time I slip up and say a curse word. I have $60. The money will go to charity and right now all of you nonprofits don’t start drooling yet because I will curb this habit.
I was happy to see a few hippies around on Mardi Gras day – my friend was one, she was supposedly on an acid trip and we were her hallucination. I saw one hippy carrying a sign that said “Never Trust Anyone Over 30” – which is sort of scary to read that the census shows New Orleans has lost over 45% of its children under 18. Lesli Jacobs, optimistically says the young people moving…
Well it seems all good things must come to an end or at least that is the theme playing out in my head right now. My laptop died and I had to get a new one. My airport router died and I had to get a new one. My external hard disk drive died and I had to get a new one. Yesterday my printer died and I had to get a new one. I…