I missed yoga yesterday because I was at the hospital meeting my aunt and uncle who had come in to see mom. She is not doing so well but the doctor keeps assuring me that she will get better. Sigh. So I went to a night yoga class and was happy to see Libby, my other favorite instructor. She took us out of the ballroom up on the roof where we were overlooking the rooftops…
NPR has been running a series on train and rail transit that made me think when I heard one of the first programs that this could only be possible under Obama’s leadership. When Bush was president was anyone talking about rail transit? Uh, no. So they were polling people around the country to see if they would be willing to use the rail or train instead of their car and one woman driving an SUV…
Sitting around a dinner table a friend said she knew of nobody who had cancer five years ago but suddenly that is all she keeps hearing about. Another friend at the table said, “It’s your age.” Well it does seem like I keep hearing stories about more people with cancer, that’s terminal, and I think of how cancer still remains one of the most incredible tragic stories of our lifetime. People die from cancer –…
I was watching the movie last night and admiring the way Paul, Julia’s husband, adored her and supported her. Someone asked me this past weekend if I could see spending the rest of my life with T and I said no doubt, that is what I am going to do. The same friend who asked me had told me that her measure of destiny was who did you want to sit down at the end…
I moved back to New Orleans with one goal in mind, to be near my mother. For decades I had dreamed of making my mother happy. I imagined that if I could relocate her to a cute yellow house, with a lovely garden, that she would sit outside on the porch and have her coffee and listen to birds and be happy. Years ago a friend of mine whose father was an alcoholic told me…
I went last night to see Julie and Julia, the new movie out about Julia Childs and a young woman name Julie who blogs about cooking out of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Meryl Streep plays Julia Childs – and as usual she does a fabulous job, at times I almost forgot it was Streep and thought it was Childs. And let me just say I love(d) Julia Childs. Before I went a few…
One of the things I was thinking about on my walk this morning is that when T and I got together we had completely different rhythms to our eating. And I merged towards her way at first and then slowly made my way back to my rhythm. One of the fall outs of both beginning a happy relationship and changing my habit of eating was to gain weight. Boom, I’m 10 pounds heavier than I…
My gal pals told me about something that might help my back problem, which has been ongoing since February 2008. Massage therapy and acupuncture have helped somewhat and switching from Pilates to yoga has provided temporary relief. But I started taking Triple Flex on Monday and I must admit only two days later feeling some lessening of the pain.
A friend gave me a book for my birthday a while back – it was Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human. Tatjana ended up reading it before me and it is still on my nightstand as my reading time has been narrowed down to two sentences a night. But I’ve become aware of Temple as T told me most of what the book was about and I heard an interview with her and Terry Gross.…