I’m looking outside at a sky filled with puffy horizontal clouds that are dark grey blue on the bottom and in the background is a soft pale pink – it’s quite an incredible sky. Someone is playing music, jive shucking type music with lots of drums and somebody getting down. The city of New Orleans is all snake oil, the atmosphere waves a wand of magic over you and lulls you into believing that there…
It’s Friday – thank god! – and we have had three bites on our ad – woo hoo! – and we are going to open a beautiful bottle of Turnbull cabernet, put in a Jane Champion movie, and eat some kibbe and a salad and say – whew, what a week, but we’re grateful for the pelican, for the cool air that has come, and for the mornings we’ve seen the sun come up across…
Gal Holiday was playing last night at Liuzza’s by the Track, I called my brother to see if he wanted to walk over there with me but he was too pooped. So after Tai Chi, I was thinking of going myself and got a call from a neighbor to join her, but by then was ready to chill. But I also knew that we were going to see Gal Holiday at the Circle Bar on…
Michele from Swan River Yoga just confirmed that they are opening up a MidCity branch on Canal by Jeff Davis – awesome. I can walk to yoga. It opens in 2010 and is in an old building that has a beautiful mural.
I was telling E that I am a tangle of love and guilt seeing my mother hooked to all of these life sustaining devices and wishing that she find her peace soon because this isn’t living. I said I didn’t go see her on Sunday and felt guilty afterwards. We talked a lot about the past years after I came back to New Orleans and the years leading up to my return when my trips…
Someone recently was saying they can’t drink or eat sugar, what is left to do – I said YOGA! And again today, I was reminded why. It seems as if the seeds of change only need fertile ground for them to take root. Like when five months ago in my darkest hours with my mother, the theme of the month was addiction. Or recently when I cannot bridge the great divide between my sibling and…
Obama came to New Orleans for a four hour stop and he told the people of New Orleans that we will rebuild stronger than before. He drove around and he saw houses vacant, schools dilapidated, roads in need of repair, and what I want to know was that pre or post Katrina? Never you mind, the important thing is that everyone – Obama, the Louisiana politicians, and the rest all focus on the Gulf Coast…
For those of us who toil in a room alone most of the day and have our victories and defeats that play out on our little stage – I say take a break! Chill out for a moment. Quit reading electronic media. Close your eyes or look up at the clouds and relish this one moment where you are breathing and feeling alive. Surely there is more to life than getting and spending.
I saw a hawk circling the sky from my office this morning. It was another restless night at the Ok Corral as life out of rhythm continues to be my late night theme. I do fine in the getting to bed, read a little, then out like a light, and next thing you know the churning wakes me up and I have no where to hide in the blackness of my room. I watched the…
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Looking for romance? Head to Honolulu. But if you are single, like live music, boutique hotels and want a wild weekend, New Orleans is the city to visit. In its latest survey of America’s favorite cities Travel and Leisure magazine asked readers to pick the best places for everything from the most attractive, intelligent, stylish and the friendliest people to where to find the best museums, restaurants, bars,…