I’m borrowing that word from Oprah as she said it on her show once and let me tell you, it works. I just read this buried in a white paper on what to expect in the coming year(s): We are still in the very early stages of nothing less than the World’s Second Industrial Revolution.
LOS ANGELES – Sir Elton John is holding close a new tiny dancer. The piano man and husband David Furnish have become parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on Christmas Day. The news was first reported Monday night by USMagazine.com and confirmed to The Associated Press by John’s Los Angeles-based publicist. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate, whose identity is being protected by the new parents. Zachary is…
My mother would have been 75 years old today and I am thankful she was my mother and she got to know the people who are close to me – here is a few photos of our last five years together, the first is a jpeg of a note posted to Mom’s digital album that I kept updated for her, it is from December 2004 – the rest are five years of fun that I…
A friend was telling me in a note she sent that you just never know what is going to happen next. How true? Do you know that predictions for the New Year include huge hacking into personal information databases? Or that all of Wall Street is one big asset bubble? Who knows what is next. Picture this, in Israel, they may have found remains that mean evolution actually began in Israel not Africa: By DANIEL…
A friend wrote that her “efforts” with a man over the last year have been for naught. Another friend told us her ex love was incapable of wishing her a Merry Christmas even though they are only recently split up. Another friend worries her husband is spending too much time primping and what could that mean? Another friend arrived in the same city as her ex-lover who teased her with text messages and ended up…
I got the fat end of the wishbone from the turkey on Christmas night and I wished for peace – all over the world – and especially here in New Orleans. Only I read the police reports and it seems people are still desperate and peace elusive: This report comes directly from the New Orleans Police Department‘s Major Offense Log for 6 a.m. Monday through 6 a.m. Tuesday. Armed Robbery (gun) 16:42 Hrs. Danneel St./Valmont St.…
The dogs and I took a long walk through City Park this morning because we could and because it was so beautiful outside this morning. While the east coast has been socked in with horrendous snow storms, down here there was frost on the grass, an unusual sight for us to see but welcome nonetheless. Frost kills bugs if nothing else. But it also glistens in the sun and it is a sunny day and…
One of thirty nights I can’t sleep I awaken to motion in the last dark out the window, tight against the hillside. I put on my glasses to stop the glass in the old house from wavering. Three of them, maybe twenty feet away, they nuzzle new snow, leaves and twigs not yet frozen hard, a poor diet, winter just begun. Foraging, chewing, staring lines into space. Their necks bolt upright only to the slight…
I forced myself to go Spin class yesterday morning and was all the better for it and today I went to boot camp because I need something to work wonders on my jelly belly roll that is growing thicker with each passing moment. But before I dragged my lumpy butt to boot camp, I managed to treat myself to lunch at Eco Cafe on Carrollton for a nice portobello and chimichuri panini with a side salad…
If You Say It Right, It Helps the Heart to Bear It by Mary Oliver The comforts of language are true and deep; in a cemetery, in the South, so many stones and so many so small. Sometimes three or four in a row. In this instance: Eliza May, Oceola, Joseph. Can you imagine the condition of the heart of a mother or a father watching these plantings? I cannot. But I try. “God taketh…