We took the family last night to hear Gal Holiday at the Rivershack, last of the great honky tonks. The Rivershack on River Road used to be what was called a colored bar, but unfortunately, last night, there was not one person of color in there, although I hear that that is usually not the case. Anyway, the band was enjoying an early gig – they started at 7PM – and there were a lot…
Today is Miracle Baby’s 21st birthday – that would be my niece, who was born 1 lb 9 oz 21 years ago today and was barely hanging on. Today she is a thriving, beautiful, young adult – Happy Birthday Miracle Baby! Then today is also the new birthday of my new great nephew Liam, born almost 9 lbs! at 1:00 AM. And it’s also a good friend’s birthday on the West Coast – so Happy…
Recession 101: No one can repossess your future. I’ve always loved out of home ads and when they’re good they’re good. Okay, granted you don’t know what is being advertised there but it did make me look.
Extreme eels take their American napkins and tear them in half to use one half at a time. Extreme eels offer their sympathy by saying things like, “we all die alone.” Extreme eels despite their hyper national identities remain curious about the lives of others.
I’ve written a lot about my yoga class and instructor, Michelle, at NOAC but I have to say it is uncanny how whatever is weighing heavy on my mind seems to be the theme of the month. This month it’s addiction. Dig? We were talking this morning about what it means to be bound by happiness and some felt that it means to be attached to happy, some felt that it was about not seeing…
My lessons from Wolfie: I prefer walking Loca in the mornings, she has the same cadence as me and I can spend my mornings organizing my waking thoughts before getting to my desk. Wolfie is another story – Wolfie is a sniff-aholic, she moves right to left and left to right with no rhyme or reason, and she doesn’t move fast if she moves at all. In the park, I was trying to teach Wolfie…
Someone once said they should have an Addy Camp (a camp for adolescents) where you send them when they hit 13 and don’t let out until they are 17. This is to save all the adults from the pure terror of dealing with them. Having seen my own nieces and nephews transformed from loving human beings into alien creatures you want to play wack a mole with, I do understand. Having a 14 year old…
Everyone keeps warning us that when we finally do get a child we are going to be in a world of pain on the sleep deprivation. Well, last night and many nights over the last two months, I have not been able to sleep because of my mother. Last night, she fell again and her neighbor called alarmed when he found her with blood on her head. This was after two nights ago when she…
It starts out hot and ends up hot – air conditioning is the only way to go. You wait all year round for that garden to get all lush and inviting and then the temperature chases you back inside or the mosquitoes do. Yep that’s why we love it down here in the Gulf South – no breeze, humidity so high that the rocks sweat, air so warm you feel like you are ripening as…
I have heard from a lot of parents that they intend to raise their child to eat healthy, not watch television, and then they have children and park them in front of a video after going through the drive-through for dinner. Stuff happens. Well, here I was thinking that having a baby at 50 would make me a less neurotic mother than I would have been at 30. I read the article about free-range parenting…