There is a great article in the WSJ this morning – the psychobabble is that some people succeed because they figure if they keep trying they will succeed. Duh. The best point in the article is how to manage failure and not to let it sideline you – as my friend J is want to quote “your best play, is your next one.” Psychologists call it “self-efficacy,” the unshakable belief some people have that they…
I had lunch with a friend last night at Vega – we had a delicious bottle of Spanish wine and tapas – and we got caught up. She said, “You seem like you’re in a good mood.” I said, “Thursday!” She smiled with her whole face, eyes, mouth, nose all wrinkled because I was smiling in the same way.
My blog was driving me nuts because the paragraph returns weren’t working and haven’t been working correctly for some time now – but Christine to the rescue! If you need help with web design or functionality – she’s the one to call!
Procter & Gamble Takes Heat for Same-Sex Storyline on ‘As the World Turns’ By Jack Neff Published: April 25, 2008 BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — When it comes to gay kissing and soap operas, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Just ask Procter & Gamble Co., though its long-lagging soap opera “As the World Turns” just may be benefiting from the controversy. After being criticized for months for not allowing a gay couple…
When I wake up tomorrow morning, my girlfriend will be three days from coming home and I’ll be days away from my 49th birthday. All of this seems so incongruent and yet perfectly natural. Three days is better than 32 days. That is what I tell myself, but for some reason I miss her more right now that I have any of these tormented days before. Must be blind love, only kind of love is…
I left for Jazz Fest about 2ish and on the way I ran into a woman I haven’t spoken with in five months, but in typical New Orleans fashion, the woman picked up our conversation at the same level of intimacy as if we had just seen each other and spent an evening together. I left her still talking and walked toward the Fairgrounds – the air was cool and there was the threat of…
I have had this vision of her since we met, her dark hair has turned to grey, her body is older, thinner, and her smile is still the same and still warms me to my core. This is us, later in life. It has made me think of Yeats’ When You Are Old – When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book And slowly…
And we welcomed the light into our hearts, our family, our friends, our cities, our countries, our planets, and our universe. Bienvinidos the clouds bellowed. Baruch haba the wind whispered. Welcome roared from the mountains. Dobro došao spoke the trees. Hoz geldiniz murmured the water. Bem-vindo sang the birds. Estamos listos, yo dije en silencio, estamos dispuestos.
T’s quote for the day: “Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.” So here are four reasons why I miss T and why she is perfect for me. Reason #4 – we are cosmopolitan: New Orleans chose me as my home – mi patria es españa, but during the Catholic monarchy we were forced to flee to Istanbul in 1492; after several hundred centuries of flourishing in Turkey, in 1930, when Constantinople…
By the time I finally was dressed and getting out the door for Jazz Fest the sky darkened, lightning flashed on the horizon, thunder roared overhead, and there you have it – it started to rain cats and dogs. I watched the endless parade of wet Jazz Festers coming back all of them slick from rain and yet happy. I ventured over to J and drank a mimosa and danced to Valerie and then we…