Years ago when I started asking my mother to keep a journal at certain times and I too started writing down our conversations, I realized I saw beauty in the absurd, the incongruent. It has stayed with me, this fascination for how life seems so black and white to a lot of people and how much it is technicolor to me. If you live in the black and white, you are many spectrums short of…
On kindness – there are times in your life when you know that you have been through something, you know you have grown and tested your mettle, you know that you are on a new plane and in a new awareness. You just know. Today in chanting one of the yoga sutras about truthfulness and about knowing who you are and standing up for it, I felt like I was on a different plane than…
The Ogden Southern Museum here in New Orleans has a Thursday night music event where they set up in the lobby and the musician plays and then answers questions from the audience. It’s really a wonderful venue, and tonight T had gone to her Thursday night coffee shop time and I was feeding Tin when my neighbor called and said let’s take the kids to the Ogden to see Andre Williams. I dressed Tin in…
After watching the Hurt Locker, I had a hard time with the fact that we, as a country, are in two wars. I just don’t see the point of any of this. Meanwhile, this morning because I woke up late having been awake for two solid hours last night for no good reason, I just walked Loca around the bayou and skipped the park. It was crisp but sunny outside and we ran into a…
Tin already has his own friends. One stopped by yesterday to say hi and sit with him while he ate his chicken and dumplings. We’ve been using mealtime as 123 and ABC time. T continues to speak to him in Croatian and me in English but we’re throwing in some Turkish and Spanish when we can. They say raising a child bilingual delays their speech but it does help them develop language more easily as…
Every time I think we have nailed a schedule with Tin, it shifts slightly. Since he’s growing, his needs are changing daily. Now that he is walking, he burns more energy. But when he is overtired now, he is way overtired. And naps – well we read that he only needs one long nap a day but he still wants to go down for three naps so we haven’t exactly left behind the infant napping…
I’ve noticed that when you tell people that you’ve given up alcoholic beverages for Lent they become defensive. But I have to say that it is very nice to get on the scale this morning and have lost one pound without having changed much else about my lifestyle. Also, I’m sleeping pretty good through the night as sometimes a glass of red wine has the same effect as a cup of coffee for me. Let’s…
Bit from Possible Origin of Punch & Judy Show Adam meets Eve And before he even Hears her side of the story, He gives her up To the prosecution. Then he turns his back On her, tossing behind him A too-small fig leaf, Muttering “Cover yourself.” She puts the leaf In front of her face. That always gets a big laugh. MARY LEADER
Work – check Play with son – check Walk dog – check Make Chicken and Dumplings – check Install Skype camera – check
There is a sign plastered to both sides of the electrical box on Orleans Avenue where Jeff Davis become Moss and it has a big mermaid on it and says, “What if God sent his daughter instead of his son?” Instead of Jesus would we have Esmeralda and then would she have been a carpenter too? Dike affect instead of fey Jesus that we know? If matriarchal societies would have won out, would life be…