I’ve lived for a long time by a motto of fake it till you make it and that has served me well. Goethe said, “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” I think it is more important to focus on what you say, because it narrates the life that becomes. For a long time, I was saying I could do anything in life because…
Tin has been obsessed with trains of late so I decided to take him on a short train trip and the easiest destination was Picayune, Mississippi, which happened to be holding their Fall festival and so we invited his friend to join us and off we went. Logistically there were problems from the get go – we would have to leave at 7am and would arrive in Picayune at 8:22 and the next train home…
The election is tomorrow and in order to be able to fully cope with the final hours before the decision is announced, we are headed to Kermit Ruffin’s new Treme Speakeasy to watch the results on Tuesday night. In the meantime, Saturday morning it was such a wonderful day that we laid out on the bayou with neighbors and soaked up the last bits of warming sun and saw a neighbor and friend campaigning from…
As we enter the darker days, with the time change that came on Saturday, Waldorf is lighting the way for the kids as well as the parents. The early childhood classes held their ceremonial lantern walk as we made lanterns from paper, leaves, and paint and we sang songs about light, and walked through the dark halls into the fading light of the playground. What a lovely ceremony and a good reminder that Tin is…
I saw a guy with a tee shirt that said YOLO in big yellow letters and on the back – You Only Live Once. So my dear readers, that is the motto this Friday – not TGIF, but live a worthy life. Today was Tin’s teacher meeting and I learned that our little boy is a master builder, never duplicates any of his complex designs and loathes anyone to mess with it. He’s a little…
The super storm on the East Coast seems so far away and removed from our lives down here in New Orleans as we regale in the beauty that is today. Tin was out of school so a bunch of his friends came over and we made pesto fresh from the garden, and we ran races on the bayou in the sunshine, we inspected spider webs on the Magnolia Bridge and we ate snacks and played…
Our Greatest Fear It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not…
I dislike Thomas the Tank Engine. There I’ve said it. No, dislike isn’t strong enough, I despise Thomas the Tank Engine. I find the writing to be clumsy, the moral underpinnings to be rigid, and the images to be downright creepy. I share this with other parents and yet Thomas continues to dominate a child’s life at a certain point and thereby, a parent’s life. I threw away a Thomas book the other day because…
So I’m working with my life coach, trading services, and I was looking up some other websites as I’m helping her with her content and I came across this on some one else’s site: REALITY CHECK – Anxiety is usually only present if you’re not. If you’re feeling anxious it means your mind is stuck in the past or future where it’s building big scary scenarios (that presentation you’re going to blow, the inadequacies you…