Is anyone else sleeping a lot? It’s a three day weekend around here (and will my work leave me alone? Signs point to “yes!”) I napped all day Saturday, and slept a full night (7 hours and 40 minutes, per my fitbit). I took two separate naps Sunday, and still slept 6 hours and 45…
Newsy News!
Boy have things been HAPPENING round here. Thing the First: I have started a new job as in-house counsel for a logistics company. In! House! Counsel! Good Lord, how long have I wanted this, I can’t even tell you. I’d given up hoping for it, decided I’d just try to make partner and stick it…
Garden of Delight
Still, every night, I watch a show with Jack before he goes to bed. He wears this green knitted beanie these days. Styles his long bangs out the front of it, across his forehead, just so. We recently had a family game night, and he participated, but also said “I’m just asking, but like, why…
Requiem
Requiem was written by Eliza Gilkyson after the 2004 tsunami that killed 230,000 people. These days the lyrics resonate. The current COVID-19 death toll is 3 million people and climbing – Brazil is currently seeing 3,000 deaths per day. A slower tsnumai, but just as overwhelming in its human costs. Here are the lyrics. Mother…
Easter!
It’s a rainy morning, in a spate of rainy mornings. I think April 2021 is the second rainiest April in the history of New Orleans, so far – we’ve had major thunderstorms mixed in with steady, unending rain every day. Our back porch plants are loving it, it’s like a tropical forest back there, heavy…