I took Tin and Loca around the bayou this morning and we ran into my doctor who lives across the way – she said she had been seeing the stroller and thought we had finally adopted. She said there is nothing like it and she’s right. Then I went to do yoga and came back to do all the things Saturday beckons – put on a big pot of red beans, baked some of the…
Several of the yogis from around the city gathered together under the large oak tree by the big lake to do 108 sun salutations and raise money and awareness about human trafficking in India. They said that India had given us yoga and that they wanted to give something back. It was a gorgeous day, albeit windy and the chimes clanging and the body were moving, and everyone had a smile on their face. Good…
There is one of those stereotype jokes that goes why do Jews have big noses and the answer, ba rum bum, is the air is free. Similarly, I was reading this book T got me called Lazarus and it is a Bosnian author who writes about how when he gets together with his immigrant Bosnian friends they always talk about how Americans are crazy the way they go outside with wet hair or open the…
Wow, what a week, it seems like we are living in paradise around these parts with weather that has been incomparable, and everyone’s smiley spring faces looking so bright. City Park has put up signs forbidding fishing again so they can prepare for the end of the month’s fishing rodeo – that is why the birds look happy. There are more dog walkers out and about on the bayou these past few days. A neighbor…
Nothing beats a mother that’s for sure when it comes to childcare. The U.S. is woefully behind when it comes to taking care of infants to toddlers and mothers who work have no choices but to put their children in institutionalized daycare. Rough. That’s not to say they are so bad, but I can’t help but equate what daycare to nursing homes and the difference in caring for your parent or your child yourself is…
If I could I would be a stay at home mother for Tin’s first three years. But I can’t. So in the meantime, trying to figure out how to juggle the expense of a nanny versus the lower cost of daycare is enough to make me want to walk off the planet. We went to look at a school today, one of the best in the city, and I had such a visceral reaction that…
We took Tin to see Zachary Richard at the Ogden because I mistakenly believed it was going to be some good cajun dancing music but the exhibit on the 5th floor was worth the trip – Bo Bartlett – enormous realism paintings. Then we walked over to the Butcher behind Cochon and had sandwiches and Tin was a champ with his pizzeta and sippy cup of milk. It was such a good idea for the…
A lot of the primo yogis in the city are going to converge at the big oak tree in City Park this Saturday to do 108 sun salutations to bring awareness to human trafficking in India. It’s from 10-12 so bring your mats and come on over.
In yoga today, in some impossible twist to the right where my thighs screamed “tight tight tight” I glanced up to see that my neighbor yogi was wearing fur underwear. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but you know it is like 78 degrees and 150 percent humidity today.
The humidity is so thick you could trace it on the windows, feel it on your skin, and smell it in the air – welcome to New Orleans. We went from “Damn it’s cold,” to “Can you believe how warm it is?” in the blink of an eye. At least, as I keep telling everyone, it’s something new to complain about. I was walking around the still lagoon this morning after having an episode with…