It’s TGIF and the end of my first week back from vacation and re-entry was a touch, um, how do you say in English? Challenging – yes that’s it. There is nothing like being away away and not thinking about bills, work, phone calls, errands, you name it – not thinking period. The nanny left this afternoon after having washed all of Tin’s sheets and changing table cover and I continued to finish up final…
SIMPLE Tatjana is in New York working on her fourth book and I asked her to look around and see if the New York Times is right and that men’s fashion is veering towards Americana and Ralph Lauren and sloughing off the Euro look. She said all she has noticed is that everything is called Simple there – Simple Cafe, Simple Restaurant, Simple Store. Obviously New Yorkers are in the mood for Simple. Meanwhile, I…
T’s friend’s nanny, Tata, introduced Tin to the world of Flamenco and then every day for the mere payment of two to four Maria cookies, Tin would dance Flamenco with Tata in her kitchen. He learned many Spanish words – baile flamenco, silla, dale un beso, and most important galleta (cookie).
If you listen quietly to Tangiers you hear labor, birds, sea, footsteps on cobblestone, German cars humming, more birds, music, Arabic, French, Spanish, the call to prayer. If you glance up from your hot mint tea sweetened to the point of honey you see a lady in a bright pink hijab and djelaba getting out of a cab wearing Jackie Onassis sunglasses, the white caps on the blue Atlantic through the ancient white washed walls…
In Tangiers we stayed at the Dar Nour guesthouse run by a lovely French couple (and I mean lovely, like rock star lovely) and our room was just enchanting as they have peppered the entire guesthouse with their own personal belongings and books and photographs and art and rugs and whatnots, plus the view off the terraces were stunning. At the top is a tri level terrace that gives you a panoramic view of Tangiers…
An ad came across an email spam that had this headline – really? I thought, pishaw. I’m 51 and sometimes I look younger and sometimes I don’t but the truth is it is all relative. My fondest images in my mind are of my grandmother with her elder face – and I love that Tin has T’s mother’s older face to have fallen in love with as well. He carries around a photo of Tete…
When I told people I was headed to Spain, they all said it’s so hot there. Hot? They don’t know hot. It’s hot here, Spain was not hot by stretch compared to New Orleans. When I told friends we were going to Spain for vacation with Tin, those with kids said you’re crazy. Tin was a perfect trooper and enjoyed the vacation immensely. When I mentioned to some that we would take a three day…
In life first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby carriage and all of that jazz but the problem is that the timing is all wrong. First you need to go out and see the world and meanwhile for a woman her biological clock is ticking like a time bomb because she should have that baby by 30 to 35. Next until you are in your 40s or 50s can you truly appreciate…
Within the next five years bans on same-sex marriages will be unconstitutional – look out wedding planners. Breaking News Alert The New York Times Wed, August 04, 2010 — 4:54 PM ET —– California Gay Marriage Ban Overturned A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional, according to reports. The ruling by Judge Vaughn R. Walker of Federal District Court in San Francisco represents an important victory for gay rights advocates in…
My neighbor just told me that she came by this morning for a package and Tin squealed when he saw her and gave her a kiss. It was her day. All throughout Spain everyone kept vying for Tin’s attention and when he would deem to give it to one, we’d say it was her day or his day. I’ve compared traveling with him to escorting the Dalai Lama around, but that is what it felt…