We sidled up to our friend and neighbor’s couch to watch the premier of Treme. I came to the show with trepidation that New Orleans is in essence an enigma and hard to capture, but willing to suspend my disbelief to join in the fun. Half way into the plotless story I had this weird feeling that someone was staring into our daily life here in New Orleans and viewers would need a translator because…
Usually I wake up in the morning and T is talking already, she wakes up with words gushing out of her mouth. I always marvel at her ability to find speech so soon after sleep. Similarly, at a certain point even before he wakes, T2 is talking up a storm about something that nobody knows – Da Da, Moo Moo. About this time, Loca jumps up in the bed and does a few downward dogs…
When my mom was in the hospital for six months in critical condition, I harped at the nurses for not updating her blackboard every day with the day and time and who was her nurse in charge. I think I was sort of mental about it because it just made me think if they couldn’t tell her what day it was then they had no hope for her. I started my visits with updating my…
I’m sitting here waiting to throw my old Blackberry and my old Samsung phone into the bayou. I’m waiting and waiting and waiting. What I’m waiting for is for Verizon to start selling iPhone which I hear will happen this fall. But what am I really missing? I see so many iPhone users with their eyes staring at the little screen, absorbed with their apps, and GPS, and other moving features that I wonder if…
I pledge allegiance to The Saints, and to the great city of New Orleans; and to The Super Bowl, for which we will win; One city, below sea level, under God; with Mardi Gras & fun for all. Amen!
A friend of mine said he has an early memory of a flood in Cincinnati, where he was standing by the front door and watching a boat go by on the street. He was two years old. Most people can’t remember anything from before four or five years of age. At least I can’t. I can barely remember anything these days. My mind has become a sieve. When we were at the zoo, Tin was…
There is a pathway that goes from Carrolton to the French Quarter. It used to be a canal where the boats that came in from the Lake, into the Bayou, went down this Canal and turned on Basin Street in a big turning basin. The effort is underway to turn this strip of land into a recreational path called the Lafitte Corridor. I imagine the future where we take our bikes to the Quarter along…
I took my niece around town today, first over to Mandina’s for a shrimp poboy, then down by the house she was born in on Mulberry Street off Metairie Road. Then we drove down Carrolton Avenue and around the riverbend to see Tulane and Audubon Park. We stopped in at Duffosat to pick up something from T’s tenant and learned that MTV’s Real World was soon to be filming in the house right across the…
On New Year’s Day we took a walkabout with our guests to City Park and I brought them under the big oak tree to listen to the wind chimes. A man was laying on a blanket not too far from us and my friend’s German mother, camera in hand with a lens as big as a telescope, went over and started speaking to him. Turns out he was the one who designed the chimes in…
There is a saying in Croatia that you stepped out of bed on your left foot, it is the equivalent of saying you woke on the wrong side of the bed. Last night we went to two parties – and put Tin to sleep in a pack and play at the second, but by 11:00, we had already all turned into pumpkins so we came home and all went to bed to the sounds of…