I had heard there was a giant Mermaid erected on St. Claude Avenue and then I went in search of it. It was by the Rusty Pelican but it was no longer there when we went cruising up and down the street looking for it. Then I started questioning my sanity – do mermaids really exist I wonder? Today, I found out the mermaid was taken down to be in a Chinese New Year parade…
We’ve been waiting for the males in this city to step up and take control of the growing violence, but when Wendy Byrne was killed at gunpoint for cooperating with a robbery by two teenage boys, it was women who fought back. The robbers’ mothers turned them in. It takes a lot of courage to turn in your own child and I have to believe they did this because they are sick to death of…
It finally warmed up here in New Orleans. The past couple of days have been freezing and even though, I’m sorry, I know it’s winter, we’re not equipped for the cold. We live in drafty houses, we have high humidity, we don’t own wool. But today the cold lifted and everyone felt it – Wolfie strolled out of the laundry room, Loca was doing her vertical hopping, and Bam Bam made his way to his…
Between reports on who pee’d and who poo’d and who is where and has gotten pets or not been fed or given a treat – the zoo has become a more than full time job and I’m thinking of retiring just so that I can keep up with it all including but not limited to administering doses of antiinflamatory for Wolfie, antianxiety for Arlene, and major walks to calm Loca, and allowing Bam Bam to…
We drove to remote St. Bernard Parish to the sheriff’s office to get fingerprints for our adoption study. As we came over the Green Bridge, even though it is not Green, we saw evidence that the world is flat — there was nothing in front or to the right or to the left except flat, flat land, with water filling up all available space. At the Sheriff’s office, there was a motley crew of folk…
There was something otherworldly about the inauguration yesterday. I left my desk at 10:30 to watch the hour long swearing in. The rest of the day I was zooming with work and wasn’t thinking about the activities for the night. Then night was upon us and T was teaching, Arlene needed pills, Wolfie needed to be set up in the laundry room and the thought of going out and celebrating was daunting. I missed the…
Circuit City is going out of business. Wouldn’t you think Best Buy would be gleeful about this? Yesterday, I was at Best Buy trying to get my stereo to accommodate my IPOD. Mind you, last time I was there and spoke with a sales rep he pointed me to a Kenwood that was low cost and said this is what you need. Only they didn’t have one in stock. So yesterday, I went back and…
Wolfie is in the yard. That would be the German Shepherd dog we rescued yesterday. Actually Wolfie is in T’s office now – or Volfie as T calls her. She’s named after Wolfie’s in Miami – one of the old time Jewish delis that is now closed I hear but which we always visited when we went. Wolfie is here only on loan. We’re going to get her squared away with her shots and take…
At 10:00 AM, I turned on CNN while I was in front of my computer working and watched the arrivals to the front of the White House. Sometime after 10:30 AM Obama walked outside to a sea of flags waving in the air and resounding cheers, then Dianne Feinstein took to the podium. I remember in San Francisco, when she came into Fleur de Lys in the middle of Steve’s special birthday dinner and stole…
Today, I was riding my bike back from the dentist and saw a dog limping in the grass. I thought it had been hit by a car and so I called T to come with the car and a leash and we took her into our vet. She’s a three year old Shepherd and she’s scared but sweet. She seems to have some sort of issue with one of her back legs or back and…