I keep ending each week either saying or hearing someone tell me “What a week!” – well let’s just sum it all up – What a life! And ain’t it grand? To think that five years ago this August, New Orleans was under putrid water, and now there is a show about it on HBO. Go figure. Or that last year at this time, our first adoption failed and I stood in the kitchen on…
Sometimes the world spins in one direction and you feel like you are shedding what and who you love – suddenly parents, pets, friends are dying and the world seems like a bleak place to be. Then the world spins the other way and you are accreting, suddenly a son, another dog, other things are coming to light up your life and you feel as if you and your heart are just growing to accommodate…
I was speaking to a friend last night who broke up with her recent beau – she says she has a thing for unavailable men and that she is working on it. She’s doing a lot of soul searching and a lot of reading about finding truth in the moment. But she said, “I just wish I had a big red flag that would go off when I’m about to do what I’m about to…
You’ll hear a few things about speaking the truth, living your truth, being in truth, in your life but I can tell you it’s hard to discern truth sometimes because there is my truth versus yours. So when someone says thanks for speaking the truth but others say why did you say that? You start to wonder what is the truth. In the end I’ll go with Keats version – Beauty is Truth and Truth…
We have been rivaling Chicago as a windy city these past couple of weeks but today especially is a noisy wind that has my palm trees bending over and touching their roots. Right now, my allergies are on full tilt boogy but having just hung up with someone in New York who is feeling the same, I gather this is a strong wind, felt not only here but in many places, and more importantly resonates…
I’d like to say I’m a creature of habit but that’s not really true. I like having a routine I can disrupt – does that mean I’m crazy? Whatever. In need of exercise, my step instructor away, I opted to take Loca to the lakefront and give her a good walk. Only wait that was what I decided then ten minutes after T left the house with T2 and her mom, I got a call…
Tin dances way too well for an ordinary child, but I don’t chalk it up to his African heritage – I went out with an African American man who had two left feet. And I know many a Latin man who can’t dance – someone in my family who I won’t name. But Tin’s dancing is getting way too sophisticated for a 1 year old. Today his nanny said Tin would rather dance than play…
The church on the corner of Canal and Jeff Davis has on the marquee: VAGINA MONOLOGUES ON SUNDAY. The thousandth email about the Louisiana Landmark’s Society Crepuscule Concert – no matter how many times I read it and say it in my mind, the word just grosses me out – Crepuscule – why that name, GROSS! Use gloaming, a much more user friendly and evocative name for the same thing. Is Loca loca because she…
In the modern dictionary, under anathema you will find only “Sarah Palin.” I was telling my MIL that Palin is utterly stupid but not to be dismissed because the hoardes adore her, so beware and take her seriously. My MIL came back and told me she earned $12 million. I said well Danielle Steel earns five fold that amount and she is utterly stupid as well. Never underestimate how the masses are enamored with simple…