New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don’t keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future does not exist. . . . As for money, New Orleanians like it well enough, but not so they’d bend their [...]
These have been hard times. My in-laws continue to have employment issues, and they seem destined NOT to return to NOLA although they (and I) want it so badly. News of death and serious sickness hitting very close to my own employment has made the office a less than cheery place of late. On the [...]
Knotted shoulders Unknit yarn. Too tired to read Too burdened to sleep. Stifling heat Trifling tasks. Long days Fleeting life. 0 I Like This
Not the dreaded Mean Reds. Just classic blues. I’ve got a case of them. The thing about the blues is that you can run and occupy your time, your mind, and fall in bed too tired to even read. But those blues? They’ll sneak into your dreams. They’ll leave their taste in your mouth when [...]
You’re not the least bit terrified of what happens before you’re born. Why, then, are you so terrified of what happens after you die? ~www.twitter.com/maitri The world ends. And the world begins. And ends. And begins. Working with families that have suffered a death makes me more familiar with death than I suspect most people [...]