We are all set to go to the Healing Center tonight to begin our Halloween weekend but it is so muggy outside from the high humidity and warmth that I am wondering if it is even possible for me to put on my costume much less my wig? Isn’t it supposed to be fall?
For better or worse in New Orleans, people know you and your mom and them. Your mom and them signifies anyone in your family. Last night we went to a house warming for our friend who just bought a house. Several of our friends have taken advantage of this buyer’s market to finally jump in. It was a small gathering but what was great about it was meeting our friend’s mother who had come in…
I did not grow up gay and so when my friends who are tell me about how it was back in the day – how they marched, how they pushed the agenda, and how they suffered – it makes me glad that I did not have to suffer through all of that and more importantly that they paved the way to make tolerance more reality than concept. One friend still likes to shout her marching…
I was telling E that I lay in bed at night and worry that when the child comes I don’t want to act like it is a burden or another stress – I want to enjoy my baby – but then I listed for her all the things that would happen when the baby arrived. She said, pishaw, you don’t know anything, you cannot know who that child will be when s/he arrives, like everyone…
I walked this morning faster – it’s my part to reinvigorate my body and to put some pep in my step. I looked at my to do list and realized that everything might not get done – it’s part of my new I don’t have to be perfect mantra. I did yoga and tried to make myself as juicy as I could – it was the theme of the day to be liquid, to be…
de mi cuñada en croacia: ETERNIDAD En mi jardin hay rosas yo no te quiero dar las rosas que mañana Mañana no tendras mañana! En mi jardin hay pajaros con canto de cristal No te los doy, que tienen alas para volar En mi jardin abejas labran fino panal: Dulzura de un minuto no te la quiero dar! Para ti lo infinito o nada; lo inmortal o esta muda tristeza que no comprenderas. La tristeza…
The other day my mother asked me to take the baby off of her. She said it was laying on her ribs. Her portable EKG machine was in her smock pocket where it lives and I thought that the weight of that was what she was referring to as a baby. But it was sort of weird that she said baby. Then the other day she told me that she continues to hear a baby…
Ever since T and I met we have talked about how we want to give back to the community some of our bounty. One of the things we always come back to is nutrition and feeding the hungry. We’ve talked about a bus converted to a moving restaurant for the poor, breakfast for poor kids, you name it. But in the end every time we think we have come up with something a friend “in…
T is in the final days of finishing her book and was out watching one last film. So I had an evening to myself and started reading a new book – Ned Sublette’s Cuba and its music from the first drums to the mambo. I was instantly hooked as this is my own history he is writing about as well as my own soul stirrings. When I went to Cuba in 1999, on my 40th…
Around this time of year, I try to set some goals. And here are couple along with perplexing issues that govern them: 1) I’ve put on weight the past two years – around 15 lbs. I was not a person who could stand a few extra, much less fifteen extra pounds. So I took up step class twice a week and a spin class once a week and wala – nada! Wala – nada is…