I usually stay at a Kimpton Hotel, or at least I have been for the last decade when I travel to the east and west coast, but then I recently changed to the Bowery Hotel in NY and it was nice discovering a new area and it made it seems as if all those years midtown near Times Square had kept me from really exploring the real side of New York. This time we were…
They say that if you are always preparing for the worse, you spend a lot of time stressing about what might not happen. And I must say I was prepared for New York to be colder than cold and actually it is cold. Like in if it is in the teens here it is probably equal to 40 degrees in humid New Orleans. So while I came packing like a Russian peasant (all the clothes…
In this short and simple Aesop’s fable, a scorpion, who couldn’t swim, asked a frog to carry him across the river on her back. The frog hesitated, saying, “I’m afraid you will attack me.” But the scorpion pointed out that it wouldn’t be in his interest to do that, because, if the frog died in the water, he would drown. So she consented. As they were half way across the water, the scorpion suddenly whipped…
Tonight President Obama addresses the nation and let’s hope tops on his list is a serious proposal to address gun control. The thought that a mentally deranged person who got kicked out of a community college (of all places) because he was unstable was able to buy not just a gun, but a semi automatic gun that could hold a clip carrying 32 bullets it pure and utter nonsense. Absurd. Goes down in the ranks…
I don’t have the type of clothes that New Yorkers wear so I’m taking just about everything I can put in the suitcase. Sigh. Big Frozen Apple here I come. I got an email from New York saying “get ready for COLD” – cold? I’m cold here at 50 degrees.
Jack LaLanne died at 96 years of age yesterday – I grew up watching my mom exercise to his morning program. Rest in peace Jack. He said about exercise: “It’s a lifestyle, it’s something you do the rest of your life,” LaLanne said. “How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.”
There were a lot of things we could have done today such as go see the production of Goodnight Moon at the Jefferson Theater in Westwego, but instead we chose to walk to the park and play on the swings, catch a football game in the big lawn, eat a banana nut muffin in the cafe and then go to the sculpture garden that I forget is free – for godsakes – and it was…
We have a running joke here in this house – who is the bigger donkey – and sometimes I admit it is hard to discern which of us is. I’ve been thinking a lot of how the older we get the more we become who we are and having recently seen QED examples of this smack dab in front of my face, I have to say that I have, admittedly, been a little curious which…
A friend is about to embark on repairing her marriage where a long-term infidelity has been uncovered. Is it possible? Hard to say. You never forget, you never forgive, but I guess for some you learn to live with it. People wonder how is it possible to have an affair for so long and the only real answer is it’s complicated and you can go back and maybe connect the dots that got it all…
We’re having a couple of cold days – oh boo hoo, you say, we don’t know anything about cold down here in New Orleans – well, we like it like that. We are not much for cold weather – we’ll endure heat and humid days that would knock the knees of the average human to be able to not be cold. So knowing that I have to get on a plane and go to New…