Two days at the dentist is enough to make you never want to see one again, except now I have a million dollar smile – or rather a $20,000 smile – and so I’m happy I went. I didn’t have my teeth done because I wanted whiter teeth – I had chronic tonsillitis as a child and a doctor for a father so I had more than the usual dosages of Tetracycline and as a…
Ah, the conflict of just who “we” means. When 9/11 happened and Bush got tough in his edited and second address to the nation and world, the dove in me was overshadowed by the hawk who wanted to tell the world that we won’t be a target for these terrorists. I didn’t support a war in Iraq – not at all – and in time, I made a clear line of distinction between Bush’s hawkish…
I was in the middle of the second day of my dental ordeal when the equipment broke and I was left laying there, mouth agape, waiting. While there, the hygienist came in and said one of the patients had fallen in her kitchen on New Year’s eve and hit her head and died shortly thereafter – 46 with two young children. Meanwhile, I was reading obits in the last People magazine of 2008 and was…
Another day of teeth and then wala – done – hopefully. Meanwhile, we’re having a round of cold here in New Orleans and that is causing us to have these beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Oh well, you can’t have sheep and money as the Croatians say.
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts–now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues.
Okay – so here’s some freshening up for your vocabulary (that would be the slang part): What’s good? (as in what’s up – teens from New Jersey) He’s simple (stupid – overheard at Best Buy) I wouldn’t say that she’s retarded but she’s a bit late (she’s retarded – a woman from the UK)
Three shades of deception and that would be self-deception – I was on the phone with a friend who is waiting for a sign because she doesn’t know if she should stay or she should go with her lover du jour, another friend I heard from is unable to open his heart because it is still bruised and sore from an other, and yet I see another friend trying to hide the obvious – or…
I spent the better part of five hours in a dentist chair with my mouth wide open and then the next five in front of a computer and on the phone trying to play catch up. And then the phone rang and it was a call to join some hoopers on the bayou. My neighbor had noticed them before and she called to tell me they were out front and had stopped them – I…
Today and tomorrow, I go in for extensive work to my teeth. This has been put off for a long long time because of money and time but finally I’m biting the bullet and getting it done. I am one of those people who took lots of tetracycline when I was young because I had chronic colds, the result is that it ruined my teeth. The irony is that one of my early careers was…