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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...

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Whole 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?...

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Major 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,...

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Pin! 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...

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Give 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!”...

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Rock 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....

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A 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...

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French 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...

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It’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...

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Slippery 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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