Last night I dreamt that we had adopted a baby girl and she grew up a month in every second that passed and I saw from my office window Tatjana holding the little girl who had just been an infant moments ago and I lamented not having spent time with my baby. Then Tatjana said that she dreamt we had adopted a baby boy. What gender do you want, people ask. Does it really matter?…
Right before Katrina, City Park had a bond that was approved to do major renovations and additions to the park. One of them was the Big Lake project which is on the right of the entrance. After four plus years, the project is completed and the lake is sporting paddle and row boats and big spouting geyser in the middle. Aside from the trees, the infrastructure, and its position right next to the New Orleans…
It has been raining all day in New Orleans and that’s just fine with me. After a marathon lunch with my brother yesterday, I was ready for some self-imposed R&R. I did not get on my bike, but I did a get a walk with Loca. And then for lunch we made bow-tie pasta with manchego and fried eggs and a cucumber and tomato salad. That just about did me in. After catching up on…
La Violencia de las Horas Todos han muerto. Murió doña Antonia, la ronca, que hacía pan barato en el burgo. Murió el cura Santiago, a quien placía le saludasen los jóvenes y las mozas, respondiéndoles a todos, indistintamente: “Buenos días, José! Buenos días, María!” Murió aquella joven rubia, Carlota, dejando un hijito de meses, que luego también murió a los ocho días de la madre. Murió mi tía Albina, que solía cantar tiempos y modos…
I took Loca for a walk today through the park and she hopped most of the way there. It’s amazing that the Crepe Myrtles are losing their foliage while there are new shoots of green all over the park. It’s winter – right? There were puddles of water everywhere because of the rains we have been having and the disappearing ferns that cover the live oaks were thick and caused the hirsute branches to look…
Our advertisements start tomorrow – we want to adopt is the message. A friend in the park yesterday told me that her friend went to his yearly work conference and got on stage and said “My wife and I are trying to adopt and our attorney told us to tell everyone.” Which has been our counsel as well. That night her friend met someone that led to them having a baby. Last night at the…
I went to see my mom today and it was the typical day of visiting then doctor then nurses then this and that. I watched for two hours as the nurses came in and bathed and changed my mom, and then when they had everything perfect, they had to do it all over again. I told them they make it look easy and that they make me happy I have my job and not theirs.…
I left the house early to meet a friend before the opera – he was here with his guy friends who every year go to a Florida college game and this time it was playing LSU. On the way out of the door of the house, flowers arrived – not just any flowers – but beautiful bouquet of flowers – and a note that read “SO GLAD YOU ARE OUR NEIGHBORS” from people who live…
We went to see Tosca last night at the Mahalia Jackson theater and Mary Elizabeth Williams was fabulous – a must see. New Orleans had one of the first opera houses even thought that burned down and it now resides in the Mahalia Jackson theater in Louis Armstrong Park. But Tosca itself is filled with everything an opera should have – one twist and turn on top of another. Tosca’s love, a painter, harbors a…
I had a heart to heart with someone who has reached the same age as me and the same time as me when parents are ill and everyone seems to be dropping like flies. She said, I don’t know what’s going on, I can remember laying around and watching the Food Channel and having time. I said welcome to my world – the world where every friend gets short shrift, where the question of the…