Nothing worse than being in your office around 7:30 on a Sunday evening. My favorite time of day is right now, the gloaming, and I’m racing to finish and go sit on the front porch and catch the remaining light of this summer’s day. The ducks are a little disconcerting. We already had ducks but someone put some new ducks in the bayou. I know, I know, why would I want an alligator and not…
I have had the pleasure of hanging around a 14-year-old lately and it is a curious age. There is an adult, a child, a teen, a sea of confusion, living inside that body and mind. “Who am I?” the teen asks herself not consciously but in everything she does. She aligns herself with adults she wants to emulate, and bats off adults the child in her wants to be free from. I was 14 once…
Our Croatian cousin wanted pancakes so of course there was an invitation to this kid and that kid that we were making pancakes and waffles at the LaLa this morning and nine kids showed up! Anyway, we worked fast and furious to produce buttermilk confections and every last batch was consumed and then about 2PM we all collapsed into nap mode. The kids left happy – two water balloons each on exit, the dogs were…
When worlds collide – we started off with some friends who came by and then another, and then our neighbor was having a party and we went there to have food and then another set of friends dropped by on their way to a another party. My M.I.L. said, “What an evening!” But this is typical of our little village here where everyone knows everyone and hanging out on the front porch and chatting about…
You ever notice how the celebrity rant goes? Somebody over night becomes IT and then everything they do is under scrutiny and then suddenly the lynch mob appears to take them down. Well, our little four and a half foot alligator sheepishly appeared in our bayou and created quite a stir. There was a) the photo op, b) the naming – Snappy, c) the bravo, Snappy was eating the nutrias, d) the Snappy might hurt…
Yesterday evening as I wound up the work week, I hit a snag that sent me into a torturous state. It was similar to the torturous state that had started the week. Let’s see week starts with mom falling again. Week ends with an external glitch. I took to bed as any good Southern woman would do and called a girlfriend who knows the circumstances. Her voice was soothing on the phone, “Oh honey, I…
The other day we were chatting with friends and someone asked T about her basketball career. She said she had a horrible left hand dribble and they wouldn’t let her in camp one year so she spent the entire summer practicing till she excelled at left hand dribbling. That part of her personality, tenacity, which comes through in a range of interactions is more appreciated when you understand that she, by all her efforts, will…
Last night, Snappy came up to the grass and laid there and caused the entire neighborhood to go into a panic about him. We thought he had died – rumor was he either ate or was bit by a nutria that had been poisoned. All of this flew around the bayou in a matter of minutes. The good news is that he is back, on the hunt, and alive and well. And through it all…
A friend stopped by today for lunch who I haven’t caught up with in a long time. She’s someone who always makes me laugh out loud. I am not quite sure why my schedule doesn’t afford time with friends enough, time to sit and lunch and laugh, or even time in general – but I’m sure I’m not the only one afflicted by this phenomenon. The other day, I confirmed I was going on my…