I went to the Mardi Gras store off of Causeway and Professor Longhair was ripping through the piano and over the speakers when I walked in. There were beads, dubloons, and purple, green and gold everything and for some reason it put a big big smile on my face. You got to love Mardi Gras – tomorrow begins the ten days of celebration that are unparalleled anywhere in America. Oh, but that’s right, this isn’t…
Do you know that you can leave a comment on my blog that shows you as anonymous on the blog? I say this because I woke this morning to the most lovely message from someone far away – who has been away from home (read: 504) for 30 years – imagine! – and she offered up her AC adaptor for my camera since mine got chewed by the vacuum and hers is dead. I had…
Mom called me late when I was having dinner at Cafe Degas with friends and left a message that said, call me now, it’s urgent. So I called from the table when we were paying the bill and mom was asleep but groggily said this, “Remember R, the woman who was married to ___, when Dad and I moved to that small town for him to be the doctor. Well we’ve talked off and on…
So last night we head off to Swirl in the pouring and cold rain and as planned we all show up and are happy to be inside and be with each other. I look across the room right when I walk in and catch sight of someone who makes my heart pound but this time I am calmer because nothing is resolved and I have no new information – so operating on old information, I…
I’ve worked my ass off this week – well not off, but into a slumber – and now I’m ready to play, but it is pouring outside and it is freezing inside and Loca has cabin fever and so do I! The girls are all headed to Swirl tonight to reconnoiter – J is going, G is meeting me there, F is going with B and her sister R and her mother who are visiting…
I had two stainless steel bowls that stuck together when I unpacked them after moving in. It’s been almost the riddle to solve around here – no one has been able to pry them apart. We’ve tried freezing them, heating them, banging them with a mallet, a hammer – nada. I handed them to Roy last night and he put them on my front porch this morning – WALA – separated. My doorknob fell off in…
Check this out – this is uncanny – precisely where I’m at right now and the read for Taurus today spilled out of my own mouth:Today marks the beginning of a very independent period for you — you can expect to start feeling a lot more interested in doing what you want to do and less interested in joining up with your gang of friends. Dinner alone now suddenly seems like a wonderful idea instead…
When Steve and I got married, it was to be my third wedding so we opted to get married on Telegraph Hill at sunrise on New Year’s Eve – new beginnings was the theme. We walked from our North Beach apartment up the hill much to the chagrin of family and friends (one who came in her curlers). I broke the glass symbolizing the destruction of the temple. Elderly Chinese men and women did tai…
Someone I love dearly called me in a little bit of a confused state. She had recently come out and had fallen in love with a woman, who then moved away to go to medical school. She had just received a phone call that the woman had fallen in love with a man. I told her love hurts and that I’m not much of an advocate for it these days. You’d think getting older would…