“Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,/ only kindness that ties your shoes/ and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,/ only kindness that raises its head/ from the crowd of the world to say/ It is I you have been looking for,/ and then goes with you everywhere/ like […]
Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, 2019. Oh, the decadence. Last year, we attended just one TOTC soiree. This year, five. In most places I’ve lived, the social life among citizens is communicated through declarative and interrogative sentences. “Tonight there is bowling league at Oaks Park bowling alley, if you’re interested, that is.” In […]
I know there will come a time when I just wear yoga outfits and Jazzfest print dresses as daily uniform, if weekends are harbingers of the retired versions of ourselves. Marika sent me some yogawear to test out and the leggings had me in a floral mood. Great for gardening because they have stealth side […]
This time last year we went to SatchmoFest in the French Quarter, and practically swam home. To mark the anniversary of last year’s unexpected flood in New Orleans, we decided to repeat everything exactly as we did last year, tempting the fates to hit us again. When the downpour started during Ellis Marsalis’s set on […]
The Fourth of July dazzled. We barbequed, the pool came to us in the heat (30 minute thundershower, thank heavens for pop up tents), and the chickens entertained a gaggle of toddlers. Everyone, chickens included, were well-fed. Lobster Cakes with Chipotle Lime Remoulade Adapted from an Ina Garten recipe 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided […]
The tomatoes are ripening in the bath tub in the yard. Yellow flowers peak out from the tops of the Roma vines like springtime mistletoe and promise more and more and more. You gotta find a good bisque recipe if your yard too burgeons with ripe reds. May I offer this for the sampling. Tomato […]
Jazzfest is here. Mango freeze, Crawfish Monica and Crawfish bread… Last weekend my father came down to celebrate his 66th birthday and we danced in sunshine to Sting, Rod Stewart, Sweet Crude, Big Freedia, Bonnie Raitt and David Byrne. The house burned down and after three days of smoothies and bran muffins we have risen […]
A meditation from the newspaper early on a Sunday morning: from an article on Lafitte, Louisiana, a Gulf South town of about 4,000 people with homes built on stilts just outside the flood protection zone twenty miles south of where I type into this screen. A supplication from a man who has chosen to live […]
The pure energy of the last three weeks in New Orleans has a hum that remains in my head, a force that pulls at the edges of my mouth to smile broad and wide again and again as I recall each costume, each band, each delicious meal, each loved one who danced in the streets […]
You know, I was at Death Café tonight, where taboo is the topic, and I am still swimming in the sea of good thoughts offered to me by my brilliant colleagues. A medical student likened bearing witness to his cadaver as gazing on the ship of Theseus—a philosophical totem that challenges notions of permanence—if a […]