My vegetable garden is coming along. I have several tomato buds; my cilantro and parsley are quadrupling in size; my shaky basil is regaining strength. All is well. Almost. Enter the slug. Yes, I my garden has slugs. So I filled a couple of caps full of beer and placed them around the garden. Then [...]
There is this. This that is larger than any sole practitioner’s office. The tales, the legacies, the advices recalled with a chuckle and a shudder: “Old Man Sawyer used to say to me, ‘If you are gonna drink at lunch, make it gin martinis. Let people know you are drunk and not an idiot.’” 0 [...]
The tomato plants have flowers. The satsuma tree, new blooms. The St. Joseph’s Altars have been dismantled. And Sun now has the feet of a child and no longer a baby. Spring has sprung in New Orleans. And we are all another year older. 0 I Like This
The back porch is a room unto itself. Tucked away from the street, the television, the office line. It is here where we swing Sun, paint Mardi Gras ladders, enjoy a setting sun. It is here where our parties end up in the evenings and where crawfish boils and birthday parties take place. It is [...]
We plant our garden And dig out weeds. We make mud pies And jump in puddles. We drive the pylons That become our homes. And live our lives. And bury our dead. 0 I Like This
Last night, I barely slept a wink. A family member was due to have a serious surgery today and I was worried sick about it. This morning, that surgery was postponed. This wasn’t the worst of the news this day held for me. As I got off the elevator in my office, our receptionist asked [...]
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero We recently had our backyard cleared of bushes and tree stumps that have been needing to go. Overall, the yard still needs help. The previous owner had an in-ground pool and just threw dirt in it when they didn’t want it [...]