Henry James said, “Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” Last night, a friend came by to bequeath his childhood Tonka truck to Tin. When we told him we were adopting a little boy, he instantly took an interest in Tin’s life. He was the first to make sure Tin had a Saints warm up suit…
Tatjana turned 44 on Wednesday – a mere baby in my view – and a friend across the bayou is turning 55 today, but what’s age got to do with it? At 51 I have a deep feeling I have lived a life, but I also feel like the best is yet to come. I think about our friend who recently received bad news, incurable cancer, and now what? Would any little thing that I…
Remember you heard it here first, the motto for the New Year is Just Be It. I read this: If today’s average American is confronted with an hour of leisure, he is likely to palpitate with panic. An hour with nothing to do! So he jumps into a dither and into a car, and starts driving off fiercely in pursuit of diversion . . . . I thank heaven I grew up in a small…
I noticed a whole mess of dead worms in front of my garden. And was freaked out. Then my neighbor’s daughter from two blocks away had walked by and seen Tin on the front porch and said there were dead worms up and down the bayou, not just in front of my house. Why would there be so many dead earthworms? I looked online and the two answers were if you had fertilized recently (I…
Tin is getting to the point where he is repeating everything and weird stuff comes out of him that you are not expecting – he points at a SUV and says “BIG BUS,” or he has this weird Italian accent when he says MAMA, it’s like maaaa ma, maaa ma almost like a Felini character, and then he is starting to string together words and that is when we hit the Kid Chinese. Watch this…
Yesterday was a stressball day – I had mistakenly waited a day to make T’s birthday cake and then ended up taking shortcuts by not sifting the flour because I was rushing to make it (lumpy cake – we’ll taste it later today), I missed for the second day in a row doing any physical activity (no yoga, no gym) because of work, I left my desk with too much left undone because I was…
Oh, come on and admit it, life is a puzzle, correct? I mean here you start heading off in this direction and then you are thrown a curve ball and you fallback to catch it and find yourself running in circles and then you jump off the merrygoround and hit the ground and you’re stunned at first but then you get up, dust off and start running and suddenly you find someone has been running…
This morning the weather was next to perfect – well let’s just give it perfect – tee shirt weather if you are walking briskly and we were as we were late getting out the gate this morning. The lagoon in City Park was filled to the brim with ducks and herons and egrets and swans and I’m just waiting for the day when I see the cormorants back on the tree and the pelicans gracing…
My brother came by and brought Tin a Monster Truck that makes Monster noises and after he left, us three women – me, T and M (the nanny) stared at it and thought, hmmm. Only a boy would by a Monster Truck for a boy. I’m half way into the Real Boys book and I’ve been observing men in a very different fashion – imagine the boy growing up who loves his mommy and his…