The Reluctant Grownup

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…