NOLA Notes

Month: September, 2011

My Inscrutable Smile

Well, Sun has been perusing the costume magazines for 10 months now and has, at long last, settled on what she wants to be for Halloween: Cinderella. Now, usually I get a tad particular about a Halloween costume having to be scary. But she’s four. And determined. So after the Saints’ execution of the Texans [...]

Katrina, Six Years Later and Still NOT Funny

During today’s Saints/Bears game, Seymour D. Fair tweeted the following: “Katrina sign behind me. #saints #whodat” and linked to this pic: And Saints fans far and wide came down like a ton of bricks about the insensitivity of Chicago Bears fans. Until it was astutely pointed out that this sign is pro-Saints. Note the black [...]

It’s in the Numbers

This post has been brewing for a while. I finally pulled my old records to be accurate on my numbers. So let’s get started. Nineteen years ago, I started law school. My parents paid my way through (state) college but I was on my own from there. So I opted for the state law school. [...]

Why the Silence, or, I Am a Mommy and a Blogger But Don’t DARE Call Me a Mommy Blogger

It’s been a wacky transition for my whole family getting adjusted to all the new things that come with having Sun at a new school: new hours, uniforms, teachers, classmates, schedules, and systems. It’s not all been smooth nor without second thoughts. But things are calming down, and we are adjusting to the newness of [...]