It’s hard to hit the road when you have pets. We had someone staying with our animals and house and got worried that the dogs weren’t getting as much human time as they needed. Agh. New York is nice and overwhelming as usual. We arrived to the cacophony of sounds and sights and have been slicing and dicing our way through a myriad of things. Adoption attorney – check. Into the sunset – good exhibit…
I was reading about others bloggers, about how there are all these millions out there and a lot of bloggers end up just giving up the ghost. Some say they had aspirations of their writing becoming a book deal. Some ran into interpersonal complications from friends or acquaintances and even lovers who thought the blogging was about them. Others just ran out of things to say. I’ve had about two moments in the last five…
We’ve dubbed Wolfie a sniffaholic because she has to inspect every blade of grass and every whiff of DNA. She also loves to lick my big toe that just lost its nail from a Mardi Gras injury (read: high heels all day long), but I digress. I’ve dubbed myself a pleaseaholic. Recently, I had appointments with two people and both of them changed the time on me, but when I had a legit reason to…
All this hullabaloo over Barack and Michelle’s date night. Well, I just have this to add, I love date night when my girlfriend takes me out. Maybe what Barack ought to think about on his next date night is how good it feels to be with the one you love and instead of letting Cheney crow on about how same sex marriage should be state’s rights, he might consider a federal law that finally dictates…
I’ve been very curious about adoption stories: ever since we were in contract with a black woman to adopt a black child, we began reading a lot about transracial adoption. Adoption also happens to come up a lot in my conversations these days – go figure. This morning walking along the Lafitte Corridor, I was speaking to a woman I just met about adoption and she said she was adopted. I said what was the…
I was supposed to get up this morning and go to yoga in the Sculpture Garden at 8AM then drive over to meet up with the Lafitte Corridor people at 10AM in front of Louis Armstrong Park. or I was supposed to get up this morning, ride my bike to NOAC for spin class at 9AM and then go meet the Lafitte Corridor group at 10AM. instead I woke up, had tea, read about a…
We are on our way to the east coast and going to have a look-see at the end of Into the West, as well as an appointment with an adoption attorney who we are setting our new hopes on, a birthday celebration with a friend nearing 50, not to mention business with lots of early to bed and early to rise. After that, it’s home sweet home for a while. We hope. We’re importing Croatia…
Some weeks are longer than others and this one felt like it had too much to do and little time to not do. My mind has been going in a zillion directions and at the end of the day I don’t feel wiser, I just feel exhausted. In New Orleans the pace is slower – Imagine! – if I was living in New York, I probably would have taken the poison pill by now just…
The sunset last night was so beautiful because there have been storms and there were big puffy clouds, and pink washes across the eastern sky. We went outside to sit on the porch early in the evening. Our neighbor was out with his little girl who just started walking at Jazz Fest, she was marching up and down the grass on the bayou. Amazing how time flies when you’re having fun.
I want to do everything and I will but I’m noticing that I can’t do it all, not just at the same time, but even in the same week. Last night, finally, we had no plans and were able to just take a bath (with Epson Salt, Baking Soda and some aromatherapy). I was looking forward to the bath all day long but when I got in it, I almost fell asleep. Don’t even ask…