I went to dinner at Meaux Bar last night with friends wearing all black. I wasn’t exactly melancholy but I felt like the world had shifted somewhat with the death of Michael Jackson. I grew up with him – we were the same age – and since he was a little Afro haired boy to what he became lately, his music has always moved me and I mean that literally. After Meaux Bar, we went…
This morning a friend wrote that she had to make a tough decision and put her beloved dog down yesterday. She said that during the split second she had to make the decision – her dog was in surgery – and the deed, the sky opened up and started pouring down rain and after the sun came out. I know how she felt having just been through this with Arlene. I love my dogs Loca…
Farrah Fawcett dies of cancer at 62 then Michael Jackson dies at 50! Good god two icons in one day. This is too much – time to pull out the black dress and crank up Billie Jean.
It is raining cats and dogs outside – the palm trees are bending over backwards, the sky is pure gray, and the clouds have stalled right overhead and unleashed their fury. YEE HA! I love me a storm and there is nothing like a New Orleans summer monsoon to make things fresh again. I’m sure the Green Market folks don’t love it but my garden is taking in every last drop.
I spent most of 2007 unrolling from the fetal position after an arduous journey from hell and back – I have Katrina, two men, one boy and a house remodel to thank for that enlightenment. So in 2007 I just let loose and became a wild child, I did not have one boundary up at all. That, I understand was allowing the left side of me to take over – the passivity of just being…
Farah Fawcett died after a long battle with cancer. It reminded me of reading about Treya in Grit and Grace – the long battle. What struck me the most was this guy that I met through my brother years ago name David. He was helping my brother to put on a celebrity golf tournament here in New Orleans and he said he went to her house one time and that when she opened the door…
In 1492, Columbus sailed the blue and claimed to have discovered America, which was a surprise to the Native Americans who had been living here. Columbus and crew came with all of their puritan values, which is why, now a couple of centuries later, politicians and sex get so much attention in the U.S. of A. I couldn’t believe that on CNN they were showing the emails from the Argentinian lover of this governor –…
The man found floating in the bayou was identified as Anthony – it certainly highlights the “we all die alone” comment – Anthony, rest in peace. Coroner identifies body pulled from Bayou St. John. by Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune Thursday June 25, 2009, 9:02 AM Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-Picayune New Orleans police divers and officers pull the body of Anthony K. Joseph, 53, out of Bayou St. John Monday. The New Orleans coroner’s…
From NYT headlines and CNN 24/7: COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said Wednesday that he had been having an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina for the last year, ending the mystery surrounding his disappearance over Father’s Day weekend and considerably dampening his prospects for a national political career. Tag this one “Who cares?”
My mother’s primary care doc has sent her to see about twenty other specialists to all say the same thing to her – but hey, I feel good knowing I’m doing my part to help the doctors in New Orleans put a little more cash in their pocket. None of them are doing any good addressing what is really wrong with my mother. So this is all just a great big exercise in futility. I…