Moss season?
Is it me or is there more moss on the trees in New Orleans than normal? Uptown, midtown, downtown moss is thick on the oaks.
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Observing the world through soft focus
My mother always saw the world through rose colored glasses and that is what kept her sane because she could not suffer reality. I always thought I took a sharp, clear view of the world but then at 45 when my eyesight deteriorated and I couldn’t read anything and I couldn’t remember anything I realized my focus was not as crisp as all that. I went to the eye doctor and he prescribed new glasses…
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Fish beware!
The turkeys are safe at this house this year as we prepare to have our Greek fest on the bayou on Thanksgiving day. The weather is so wonderful it’s hard to believe that it is around the end of November and we are even talking about Thanksgiving but there you have it – the every day mystery of living in the Gulf South where weather is usually good. Our big dish will be fish, prepared…
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The bear in me
By all accounts I’m a bull according to the horoscope that is – but a lot of times you could call me a bull the way I move through life (sort of like in a china closet) because I just have a tendency to go full on till I drop. I’m also a boar according to the Chinese horoscope and that is pretty much who I am as well, sort of happy as a pig…
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The Gratitude Project
I lost something on Saturday and it was important to me because it was a piece of my mom’s jewelry. I moaned about and everyone had a pithy response such as – let it go, it was meant to be lost, it’s not important. But it was important to me because while I was wearing it my family (her side of the family) all recognized it as hers and remembered very clearly her wearing it.…
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Giving it up for real
It’s November 22nd and the cheese I unwrapped yesterday said it expires on this day. Which got me to thinking about from this moment on the end of the year will be here before we can blink our collective eyes. This week is Thanksgiving, then we are having our neighborhood Bayou Blunderbus put on by my neighbor where everyone costumes and rows down the bayou to a cook out down the way, then we have…
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It’s springtime in New Orleans!
No really – it’s warm and sunny and beautiful outside and it doesn’t feel like fall at all. We had a glorious walk through the park this morning and even the weather for Thanksgiving looks like it is going to be wonderful – a mere 80 degrees – we’re thinking we’ll move our party out to the bayou as it was starting small and has now burgeoned to over 17 adults and a few kids.…
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The riches of our fair city
Riding to the country and back yesterday with one of New Orleans’ prominent musicians reminded me of how rich and wonderful is our life here in New Orleans. Deacon John was regaling us with musical history (The College Inn in Thibodeaux) as well as musician jokes (what is the difference between a drummer and an extra large pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four) and also musical awe (“I played with Bo Diddley!”).…
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Not quite a year
It has been almost a year since my mother died (11-30-09) and we held a small memorial for her to dedicate her headstone yesterday. Since I started thinking about these things when mom went into the hospital, it’s been an unconventional tying together of different faiths, cultures and traditions and along the way making tradition as we went along. But that is fitting for a woman who embodied an unconventional life. My mom wanted to…
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Boil your water
We were driving across the lake yesterday when T got a text that there is a boil your water advisory in the city. Apparently on Friday night a power outage caused a drop in water pressure at the water purification plant and so as a precaution the city issued this warning. Although it is supposed to have been restored rather quickly the delay is they need to test the water extensively before we can safely…