After a big excursion, be it a vacation or Mardi Gras, or in this case, two solid days of French Quarter Fest, I am always left blue. Add to that the very little sleep I got last night (we are attempting to use the Ferber method to get Sun to omit that 3am bottle-feeding) coupled [...]
Day 2 of 2008 FQF is in the bag for me. It was a fun two days, and I doubt I’ll make it back out tomorrow. This Fest has been my best yet. It started for me the best way it could, at Napoleon House: Isn’t their courtyard awesome? and here’s my FAVORITE summertime cocktail, [...]
Napoleon House Pimm’s Cups. Tujaque’s brisket. Sun (the baby and the celestial body), husband, and friends. Great music. More good food. And beer. Exhaustion. Read a far better description here. Maybe a post about Day 2 will be better. Because after a very long, restful night’s sleep, I am gearing up and going back down. [...]
Yesterday evening, I needed to go across the river (that’s the Mississippi River) to meet several clients at several locations. Two of the locations, I’d been to before, a third was new to me. “Across the river” is what we eastbankers refer to every city on the “westbank.” I put quotes around the word westbank [...]
I just returned from lunch at Galatoire’s and am writing while still under its magical spell. I went with two friends, one of which is an attorney I work with and the other someone who once worked in my office. Her betrayal at leaving the firm, this many years later, is still not forgiven. Anywho, [...]
When I stress, it shows in my fingers. I don’t bite my nails; I don’t smoke and have yellow nails as a result; I don’t crack my knuckles. No, my vice is that I pick my cuticles. Until they bleed. Then I pick some more. In a good week, my fingertips will be in “healing [...]
Mondays always come fast and furious, almost as if unexpected. The thick of sleep stays with me ’til mid-morning. Even when I am awoken at 5am to the buzz of a mosquito that has been biting me. Slow and groggy and appreciative of the quiet am I until that first cup of coffee. Mondays are [...]
Captain Sarcastic and I, along with a sleeping Sun, went to the Freret Street Market yesterday. Expect that in addition to being the monthly art market, it was also the annual Freret Street Fest. So we were treated with live music (two stages), beer and food tents, as well as lots of good art. Plus [...]
Pete has spent copious hours laboring over a new nonsense blog bling award. We give you: We endeavor to award blogs and/or posts that are a kindred spirit with the beloved NOLA Lucky Dog. What is the spirit of a NOLA Lucky Dog, you ask? Well, it is original and iconic; it is reverential and [...]
Sitting at a red-and-white checkered table at Bon Ton Cafe has a way of transforming you from the mental space you are in when you walk through the restaurant’s doors. Bon Ton Cafe has many tables in its one biggish room, and these tables are usually full during lunchtime. The buzz of conversation is intoxicating. [...]