Seas Between Us Broad Have Roared
Ok, maybe just the Atchafalaya Basin, but damn it feels like a long time since we’ve talked. I spent a good chunk of the last three weeks with family and friends in Hometown, which was good for my...
View ArticleWhole Foods Parking Lot
There was an incident in the New Orleans Whole Foods Parking Lot last week. Someone was so pissed about the way another customer parked that he pulled out a GUN and threatened the driver. Really?...
View ArticleMajor Pet Peeve
I am not a perfect mother. Far from it. But I can not f-ing stand it when people feed their kids nothing but crap. To the mother who left the grocery with a basket full of Totino’s frozen pizzas,...
View ArticlePin! Me
I barely understand Pinterest, but I know enough to realize that it’s sweeping the mommy nation. If I post a cocktail pic on Pinterest, I get about three times more views than if I don’t. And I’ve...
View ArticleGive Me Cornbread
My kids and I were listening to the Zydeco masterpiece Give Him Cornbread by Beau Jocque on the way to school. It’s a song about, you guessed, cornbread. At some point, he shouts “Couche-couche!”...
View ArticleRock Bottom
Rock bottom is the place in addiction when some event is significant enough that you realize you have a problem. I hit rock bottom yesterday. I bought these: I don’t buy pre-made baked goods....
View ArticleA Tale of Two Activities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it...
View ArticleFrench Quarter Fest 2012
By now, you know that I prefer cooking and eating at home to going out. Usually. But one of my favorite New Orleans events is French Quarter Fest. It’s free, the music is great and the food is...
View ArticleIt’s Elementary. Chess, That Is.
Dude and I are headed for a big adventure this afternoon: The National Elementary Chess Championship in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s 7. The kid loves chess. And in this day, who wouldn’t do everything...
View ArticleSlippery Summer To-Do List
The kids were told to list any ideas, feasible or not. I doubt we will make it China this summer. There was a time not long ago when I hated summer. HATED it. My kids are less than sixteen months...
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