I looked at my affirmation today and it really didn’t speak to me. My horoscope was about some eclectic party I was supposed to attend and have a great time. It’s getting dark early now. The pelicans are circling the park but haven’t settled on coming down a few more blocks to my end of the bayou. There is a slight chill in the air. I’ve gained weight – I feel it in the drag…
Ran into a friend whose mother has Alzheimer’s – she said she is going to paint her car so her mom doesn’t think it is hers anymore. She had taken to putting her mother’s purse by the door with nothing in it since her mother was in the habit of grabbing it and running out the door to wander the neighborhood. My mother told me tonight that she has sunk to the lowest low of…
By the New York Times no less: November 7, 2008 Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question By C. J. CHIVERS and ELLEN BARRY TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression. Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated…
A friend sent an email this morning saying she is concerned about assassination attempts on Obama. Believe me, the thought has crossed my mind more than once, but I don’t want to give into worry because worry begets worry. If I start to worry about something happening to Obama it will lead me to worrying about the economy and about our country and about well, the list is endless. What is for certain is that…
I know that Louisiana turned up red on that map, but I want to tell you that I don’t know one person in this city who I speak with, have run into, know, hang with, who did not vote for Obama. All those other people, the ones that made this state red, they just ignorant is all.
Someone said there are changes afoot around the globe and these changes possibly could have come about only under times of duress. Sarkozy was elected in France – he’s Jewish. Obama was elected in the U.S. – he’s black. It’s about time we got a different point of view.
Besides the copious WOO HOOs that I feel like shouting at every minute when I stop and realize we elected Obama president, there are the wonderful things I keep reading. There was a round up from around the world of reactions, Obama is a global president the people say, born of a white mother and black father, born from an African father, raised in Thailand, Hawaii – a man of the world. But my favorite…
Nine months ago today, I got up in the morning and put on a red angel costume and headed to Mardi Gras. It was Fat Tuesday. I was with loved ones (also angels). By midmorning, I was standing in the Faubourg Marigny looking into the eyes of the woman I would fall madly in love with, open my life to, and plan my future around. Your life can change in a moment. I remember so…
Everybody thinks I have the life of of Riley – sitting in my tower office, just la di da, writing all sorts of things and doing what I want. Ha! If they only knew there is Instant Message, Cell Phone, Landline, Email, Skype and reams of data and decisions coming at a lightning speed and half the time I can’t recall what my To Do list was when I started the day but I know…
It was so gorgeous outside but I had to come straight to my desk when I got up and it wasn’t until midmorning before I could get out and in the meantime, Loca was driving me nuts. Nudging me, licking me, hopping up and down like a black pogo stick, and crawling across the floor army style. Who doesn’t walk their dog? My god, this dog would spiral down to China if she wasn’t walked.