In 2009, we went to a friend’s house for the inauguration of President Barack Obama and his family into the White House. We dressed up, we surrounded ourself with like-minded friends, and we danced and hollered the night away riding the high of Obama’s HOPE dream. This year, for the inauguration of Obama’s second term, I went to D.C. with friends to stand outside in the mall and witness it up close and personal with…
I was standing in Zumba on Monday a week ago when friends said they were headed to D.C. to the inauguration. “Why don’t you come?” Oh right, as if I could just get on a plane right now with everything going on, and … . “You know it will all be here when you get back.” And so didn’t I scramble, for a flight, to finish my project, to try to find a ball gown,…
I’ve been dogging it out with all these big decisions and changes and details and now the time has come to have fun! More will be revealed ……
On my mother’s deathbed I asked her how I would recognize her if she was present in my life and she said, “Dog.” Something that at the time I thought was the amusing whisper of a dying woman who always had a little bit of the jokester in her. But then when Tin was in the hospital to have his tear ducts opened and I called to her to be with me and thought I…
I spent the day nose to the grindstone trying to finish a report that has been elusive if only for the fact that two holiday weeks and a major conference scattered my sources around the globe. So I just focused, and little by little it came together. At one point, not stopping for lunch, I ran over and picked up a ballgown that a friend loaned me that is stunning. And as I hung it…
Because things are insane. I’m squeezing every drop of time to get my report done, and thought I’d think about my wardrobe choice for the Inauguration weekend Friday afternoon when suddenly I just put out an SOS to three friends for ballgowns and now my cup runneth over. Oh my! The lovely dresses that have come my way – it’s insane! Then I had to run out and get my lab work done for the…
I’ve been smiling and dialing all days long this week for a project I’m working on and frankly I was losing my voice trying to read Tin’s books to him. He said, “Mommy, I can’t hear you.” But when it’s raining goodness you just have to keep up the pace. I’m blessed with work sources that are insightful and charming, and I’m on a roll as one friend pointed out here, so I can’t stop…
I woke this morning with a list of things to do that would make anyone blush. Then the day started moving at its own groove. Buyers accepted the offer for the house and we close on February 28. I kept my appointment to see an apartment on Grand Route St John and rented it starting February 1st. And so I was waiting all day to hear about the lot because the appraisal was coming in…
As the reality of selling the LaLa became more pronounced, I began a wide search around the city to buy a house or a lot to build a house on leaving myself open for all neighborhoods. A friend called who had just bought an investment property near the St. Roch area in back of the Fish Market and St. Claude. It was in the 2000 block of Urquhart. I got in the car and drove…