Tatjana is due home tomorrow and the house will be better off for it – when you’re the only one taking care of a little boy, two big dogs, one bastard cat and then you add two neighbor’s kids, you go plum crazy!!! All this while you have work overflowing from the crevices. Woooooo scary stuff.
I wrote that last entry then came across this email from a friend that was sent at the end of 2009 – sounds like you could have a release party anytime you damn well please. I’m thinking with the 5th anniversary of Katrina coming up and the BP spill parade not on the schedule – that perhaps we should have a release parade? Hey People I love, Just thought I’d share something with you. If…
Letting go is hard for a lot of people – letting go of past slights, of unfulfilled dreams, of lives not lived – and I’ve certainly had my bouts of but why not? over the years. The one thing that I have learned in life is that holding onto something negative is toxic for the soul and the state of the soul begets everything else. My first divorce was painful because it collapsed into an…
My neighbor who calls himself a roving correspondent because I’m always speaking to him over my other neighbor’s hedge or from my porch said that he was puzzled as to why this City had not organized a parade to celebrate the capping of the BP oil spill. So unlike us, he said. We told him must be the heat.
To have a friend is to be a friend or so they say, but I have to say in this modern life, I hope my friend’s text because that is the extent of my visiting friend time. I had one cuss me out over the costs of text messaging and of course, you know what happen, she never heard from me again. Look I don’t get a lot of time for a lot of things,…
Tin has new PJs that are take-off defying (no more Poocaso incidents) and look adorable.
The words are tumbling out of Tin’s mouth – today he finally said Loca and he said Yellow and this added to the growing list of keys, more, Mama, Mommy, Tete, moon, bayou, ball, down, up, cup, NO, yep, yeah, boom, Heidi. We’ve been saying smile to him lately and today he got it right on cue. I was taking a photograph of him in his crib with the Zebra that was a stand-in for…
I spent the evening with a friend who is still grieving over the death of her toddler daughter and she seemed to feel as if everyone was ready for her to quit grieving since it has been two years. I asked her how long grief lasts? Another friend was telling me that her partner is still grieving over the loss of his father five years ago. Is New Orleans still grieving five years after Katrina?…
We’ve spent a relatively quiet Saturday with only a trip uptown to buy some new jammies at Angelique’s for Baby on Magazine and stopping by Design within Reach to look at something that would work for a stand up desk for me. Tin was hungry so stopped in at Whole Food for pizza which he devoured (the child has a hollow leg, I’m convinced).
I had to run to Lakeside Camera because my camera broke and I was developing a disposable that I bought but for those reasons I found myself in Metairie twice this week and right by what is the Cajun Kosher Deli on Severn. The first time I stopped in and bought some bagels and whitefish salad – yum yum yum. This time I went back for whitefish salad but they had just baked some noodle…