I have a painting that hangs above my desk of a woman – no one I know – but a woman who posed for a friend and artist (Randall Sexton) – and for some reason the first time I saw this painting, I knew I had found my muse. She’s a robust woman, with a nondescript island foreignness about her looks and the colors – turquoise, navy, green and plum – are colors that put…
The interesting thing about family is that you love them despite them. Take for example my own mother, just speaking to friends recently who are in the tormented years of being parents to teenagers, I realize my mother must have gone through hell with six teenagers coming up in our household. Pure hell. So the very fact that she stuck it out with us for all these years, means that we owe it to stick…
I used to be an avid reader of Harper’s and then started to feel sometimes like there was one monthly out of twelve that engrossed me and the rest were all collections of articles trying to sound hip and erudite simultaneously. Then I found myself on the road a lot, and fatigued, a friend suggested arriving at my hotel late at night to a drawn bath, a candle and a girl magazine to just flip…
This post might come across as unpatriotic, so don’t read it if you are in a red, white and blue frame of mind. Today is Independence Day because on July 4, 1776, the United States of America formally announced its freedom from England via the Declaration of Independence. A few years later in Louisiana, we claimed our freedom on May 2, 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Despite all of this freedom that we are inclined…
It’s been a while since we’ve gone over to Swirl because the past few Fridays have seen the day carry way too deep into the night, so tonight, on this three day weekend, we’re going over to see our friends and get out of the house. TGIF and it’s a 3-day weekend – what more could you ask for?
I took Loca as planned to have lunch with mom and picked up burgers at Lee’s on the way. My goal: to go spend time with her and not judge and to let Loca be my healing lab partner. I found her with another black eye. She had fallen again and now had another black eye on the other side and a twisted ankle. She said she wouldn’t use the walker because she was going…
Today was my day off so what did I do – EVERYTHING – laundry, grocery, mom, adoption book, make the bed. I am now about to enter the neutral zone – the land where nothing gets done and no one cares. Watch me now.
Yesterday, friends borrowed the canoe and took their young children out for a paddle, only no one was watching the horizon and the same storm that had passed through downtown earlier finally made its way to the bayou and as they were out in the middle of the water, the sky grew ominously black, the lightning and thunder kicked in and the wind started howling. A little daunted, they tried to paddle back to our…
Well happy almost fourth of July. I don’t know about you but this three day weekend is the first time it felt anything remotely like summer in the sense that I can envision some leisure time. Loca and I went for an early walk this morning to beat the heat and we were shocked by the number of people out so early – we’ve been such sleepy heads lately, not getting out till 7 or…
We had gotten to a point where most people I speak with had digested the bad news of the recession and then after the initial shock and then realization that it would be a long time to climb out of this, suddenly bad news about unemployment has triggered another round of shock. How is that? Excuse me didn’t they say that it is going to take a long time to climb out of this mess…