Who dat! Notice it is not a question mark anymore, it has become a declarative – Who dat! As the season opens tomorrow night with more hoopla that you could imagine in this city and this city has put on some hoopla, I’m sort of mixed about the whole thing. First, I was sort of unaware the season was starting tomorrow until clients, colleagues and sources started asking me if I was excited. Then I…
I was speaking to someone in a foreign country who told me they didn’t have access to something online because the government blocks the site. It made me think about Obama and how the big opposition to him and all the hullabaloo about whether or not he is a Muslim is not personal, it really stems from a fear of government. Reading an article by Maureen Dowd in Saudia Arabia, my stomach clenches at the…
The Ogden has launched their Start With Art kid’s program which combines music and art for one to five year olds on Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11. Tin and his nanny did this series three Wednesday in a row and it was great – he did his first craft projects, learned songs and more importantly he learned about classrooms, groups and museums. Donna’s on Rampart Street closed its doors. The times we saw Evan…
You know what they say about terrible twos – they’re horrible, yeah well there are terrible 18 months onward as well. Tin has entered the phase where he is frustrated by air molecules not blowing the way he wants them to and so it has become a little testy around the okay corral. My intuition and most of what I read all point to the same thing – do not respond to manipulative tantrums, and…
Petraeus Warns Against Planned Koran-Burning (NYT) By ADAM B. ELLICK Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said that plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on Sept. 11 could play into the hands of extremists.
Since we hired Tin’s nanny, we asked her to keep a journal of the day, for things that are helpful to know – how many BMs, what new words or discoveries were made, or anything pertinent to our understanding of how his day went without us. While my friend was here, he received a text message from the woman watching his cat. It went like this: Went to visit cat, she came out to greet…
Yesterday, for Labor Day, since the nanny was here, we took the day off and went with our out-of-town friends to tour the 9th Ward and then over to the Country Club in the Bywater. The Country Club is where I held my 50th birthday party, which was a blast and just so happens these same friends had come in for that occasion as well. Since this was Southern Decadence weekend and the Country Club…
I was thinking about Tin’s genealogy as I was working on mine and Tatjana’s. I have some details of his background but not a lot. I thought of a study I read once that talked about how the influx of Africans came into the United States and there was some tracking someone had done about how tribes from this part of Africa had wound up one part of the U.S. and other tribes in other…
Yesterday, we were sitting on the porch in the late afternoon eating our sandwiches from Parkway and a pelican flew by. It’s early. They usually don’t come until October so here they are a full month earlier than usual. Now it could be some lone pelican who decided to come in off the lake because he was in a mood for a little travel, but I’d say if you listen to the animals you learn…
We had three different couples in from out of town this weekend and it is Southern Decadence with all sorts of events to go to, one namely being the big parade yesterday, and as things would have it, we did not do much of any of what we had planned: Reason number 1: On Sunday, Tin who never naps in the morning slept for a long time. Then didn’t eat lunch. Reason number 2: It…