How much of a Virgo am I?? How desperately do you want to know?? Why, if the question is eating you up inside, just click on this little old link right…
Exacerbating the usual Monday stress is the repetitive (but not rhythmic) loud thunking noise of the power-washer’s scaffold outside my skyscraper window – left to hang over the weekend’s gales, and…
The Fat Cyclist, besides being one of two people to keep me motivated in my half marathon training (the other being a real life friend and commentor, Amanda), posed an interesting question today. The Setup Most of us…
We saw Pearl Jam at Jazz fest. A really great show. The attendees were all so middle-aged. I’m so middle-aged. It was great, and bittersweet. Eddie Vedder is Sixty Years Old, but he…
Small things that bring me joy: Part 3 (which has links to Part 1 and 2) 10. A back scratch. I can’t believe I didn’t put this first. My grandmother used to tell…
Notes from the Tulane Book Fest – Anne Applebaum Sarah Broom & Tracy K. Smith Excerpt from “I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it” by…
We are planting trees in an underserved area of the city today – Craiggy and I. I am trying to volunteer on a community project twice a quarter this year – up from…
Last night a frigid wind blew into New Orleans. It rattled the windows, mercilessly sporadic, and I barely slept. We live in a camelback in New Orleans and the entire front bit of…