Inspired by my old compatriot Joe Nickell, who is now an arts writer out in Montana, I commissioned local artist Jane Brewster to paint a…
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Inspired by my old compatriot Joe Nickell, who is now an arts writer out in Montana, I commissioned local artist Jane Brewster to paint a…
Property tax bills are coming out in New Orleans right now. But this is not about that. I finally beat my father-in-law at Scrabble. The…
In addition to Xy’s birthday, we’re also celebrating Persephone’s 25,000th hour of life today; but how to explain this number to a toddler?
Here’s two sets of a dozen pictures each. For maximum enjoyment, view each slideshow in fullscreen mode. (A button will appear in the lower right…
I was searching high and low for turkey drumsticks. They’re normally available in most local stores, but suddenly, the weekend before the holiday, we couldn’t…
As a number of people pointed out to me, the trouble with celebrating the first thousand days of life is that the number 1,000 is…
Persephone is a thousand today. It’s her thousandth day of life. It seems like the sort of thing that should be celebrated, and I’ve had…
Yesterday morning I took my first yoga class ever. Through Living Social, I got a deal on three classes at TriYoga in Mid-City that was…
I had my phone turned off from Saturday night when I went to bed until after noon Sunday. When I fired it back up, I…
Here’s something I wrote on March 18, 2008, but never published for some strange reason. Two and a half years later, these words still ring…
The dry spell was broken at last this morning. Purple (and Black) Rain by Editor B
There’s a house in our neighborhood with a large frog sculpture mounted to the exterior, such that it appears to be climbing up the side…
Guess what I was doing 33 years ago today? Well, actually I don’t know. But I know what my mother was doing. She was posting…
Today’s the birthday of a very special woman in my life. I call her Mom. Over the years I’ve come to realize that I owe…
I just wanted to take a quick minute to salute my parents. They just finished another week of volunteer work, helping to rebuild New Orleans.…
Who Dat ABC by Editor B
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanuptowngirl/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This just in from my father: With all the fun you’re having pre-game, I want to share a little game…
I’m still trying to catch up to the present. We celebrated Xy’s birthday last Tuesday. Since she was feeling sick and I was run ragged…