Hair is important to me. Don’t ask me why. I don’t know how to do a damn thing with my hair but I will pay the bucks to get it blow dried and I will pay the big bucks to have the best guy I know do my hair. I’ll never forget sitting in Edith Morris’ office when we were going to adopt the first child – a girl – and the 20 year old…
So most everything I am looking at these days is being churned and burned by the internet and its culture of free which basically unraveled the music industry, and is about to chew its way through the publishing industry, let’s just not even get started with the media industry or the entertainment industry. So on the flight here to Orlando I had this radical thought (for me). I was reading my Real Boys book and…
I arrived in Orlando to the Shingle Creek Resort – lovely place – ahem. On my way to the airport, I stopped at the store on Metairie Road where friends had bought a bowl for Tin – it is a bowl that sticks to the table and it is invaluable for a little boy who likes to upend his bowls that don’t stick to the table. When I got back in my car I noticed…
On the morning I am getting ready to leave for a business trip, the house seems large and cozy at the same time, there is always a special light in the front room and my bed looks luxurious and inviting, and Tin is a perfect angel who I made breakfast for this morning – three eggs, two pieces of toast, apple and milk and he ate like a champion. My partner is running around on…
I am a lousy photographer, don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t stop me from taking photographs all the time. Similarly, I’m a lousy singer, but it doesn’t stop me from singing at the top of my lungs. A friend of mine took calligraphy for many years and sucked at it, but I still enjoyed getting her wobbly handwritten notes, and she loved doing it and admitted she was bad at it. See it doesn’t really…
It has been so dry here in New Orleans that the worms curled up and died right beside the garden. Even the rosemary was looking peaked. So out of the blue it started raining tonight and there was a welcome relief felt palpably in the air. Hopefully it will dust off the trees and fences and give us a little bit of clean fresh air for tomorrow.
News just in: A federal judge ordered the government on Tuesday to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
I woke a little bit on the late side this morning but had to walk the dogs because I realized that if I don’t walk Loca she is crazy (and that is not redundant), and that because of her I get my walk and I’m therefore not crazy. So we went for our long walk through the park and saw Great Egrets, Tricolored Herons, two Cormorants up in the tree, ducks galore and three white…
Last Christmas I took a photo of Tin and I dressed up in Santa outfits. I sent one to a client and friend of mine and he said, “You have the same smile.” A couple of months ago, I took a photograph of Tin sitting on the front porch eating raisins and a friend wrote, “He looks like both of you.” It’s amazing what you see when you are looking. I was sitting a long…
A couple of days ago out of the blue, Tin started trying to hurl himself down the stairs. T noticed it and told me about it, but I hadn’t seen it up close and personal. It’s odd because he has been such a careful boy, learning so fast how to go up and down the stairs either on his bottom or holding on to someone’s hand. Suddenly he is standing at the top of the…