509 Saint Croix Street* – there we are. I stand in a lather of indecision on the damp, grotty cobbled street, while my six and eight year old boys fiddle and jangle their limbs and punch each other half-heartedly, in that way children have when they can’t sit still. Drunk people festooned with beads and gripping…
Catastrophes, Great and Small
It’s been a helluva week. We started this week with me setting my glorious macaroni and cheese dish on fire, and are ending it with a really killer head cold, and some non-fun items got stuffed in between as well. First, the Sunday tragedy that began it all. Jack had a Cub Scouts meeting, and…
Comfort Food on a Rare Cold Weekend
Thanks all for your comments – I’m so impressed you read my posts on Christmas, given how much came at you so quickly. I love my small but committed band of readers – ya’ll are great, and it always buoys me to see comments here. (I still read a lot of blogs and never comment,…
2017 Resolutions
So it’s de rigeur these days to call them “intentions” instead of “resolutions,” but I’m sticking with “resolution” because I like the sound of the word “resolve.” Only a few, and along the same themes as I always do, but after the gluttony and sluggishness of December, I would like to approach 2017 with a…
2016 Year in Review
1. What did I do in 2016 that I’ve never done before? I took the Louisiana bar exam. Which was my third bar exam, but my first (and last!) attempt at the Louisiana one specifically. THANK. GOD. 2. Did you keep your resolutions? I do not appear to have made any, which is not a surprise…