I got some bad news today about a friend who didn’t need any more bad news and well, I just decided to quit with all the what if’s and anxiety and everything and just say to hell with it. I made French toast for Tin out of leftover Challah and made us some Moroccan style greens with chickpeas (yummy). Then Tin and I went for a walk around the bayou – it’s always around dinner…
A friend told me that a six week old black baby girl needed a home. “Are you interested?” Good grief, on the heels of all that is going on I said, “Yes, no, wait, yes, no, no.” I referred the baby girl to our friend who wants a baby “just like Tin,” and since the skin color was at least close, I said, “Here is your Tin.” Lord today, another baby. No, I’d have to…
I was able to get to yoga today when a call was cancelled and thank god I went because yesterday’s cardio class nearly killed me and my newfound late night anxiety is threatening to seal the deal. Michele’s assistant talked about how when we step outside after a yoga class we are aware and engaged with the world. In our practice we seek balance in our poses. He used yoga as a metaphor for the…
So here’s my horoscope – it seemed the writer was in a pensive mood: September 21, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) So, what’s been happening in your love life lately? A good place to start, when you answer that question, is with yourself. Whether you’re single or solidly committed, how are you feeling? Connected, disconnected? What are your expectations of a relationship? What are your expectations of a life? Do you think people are meant to be…
The other night Tin and I were visiting my neighbor and a football game was on and his eyes were riveted to the TV set. My neighbor said, “He might be on the field one day,” and I said, “I’d rather him sing When the Saints Come Marching In than be one.” So I was watching a video about Deacon John and he said his mother cut his fingernails under a fig tree because there is…
You could throw a rock and hit a musician in this town, and I guess that is what makes it great to play music in this city and not (it’s hard to get paid when there are so many of you). I’ve seen no other profession struggle to make a living more than a musician except if you compare them to a grade school teacher. Lofty work but low down pay. I was looking around…
Life has a funny way of being all inclusive like the fact that my dear friend is attending her nephew’s funeral tonight, he died suddenly of a heart attack last Thursday, and in the meantime, I’m thinking about my mother’s one year anniversary and ways to honor her spirit, and then the guy comes to look at the solid mahogany columns on the LaLa and says I should paint them white or else I’m just…
It’s Monday again, and I don’t mean that in any sort of dispirited fashion, it’s just that Mondays have become so typical in that they are the days that you race into work and plunge headlong into your projects and yet just minutes before you leapt out of the gate you were reticent to start the toil. My neighbor was walking her dog which started out with her dog running at a clip around one…
After a big walk through the park this morning with the dogs and Tin, we went to Parkway Bakery & Tavern for lunch to meet friends who wanted to see the open house on the bayou. The house turns out to be accurately described as a Gentilly house (a neighbor described it) with a new reduced price tag of $299K. It was $475K. But that’s another story, apparently the home owners paid around $300K for…
On my block of the bayou I have fabulous neighbors, who have become great friends as well, but even down the block and on the court, and across the bayou there are more of the same. Last night, we walked over to a neighbor who has a tradition of holding a break – fast after Yom Kippur, and there we found once again the company of friends. The table was filled with delicious food and…