Still oaring through the bog of cancer treatment. “I can’t complain about it, just gotta keep my balance/ And just keep dancing on it/ We getting funky on the scene/ And you know about it, like a star on the screen/ Watch me tip all on it. Baby whether you’re high or low, baby whether […]
The staggering procrastination which has stymied this post is likely proportional to the degree of denial serving to protect my selfhood from the very thing attacking it—cancer. Diagnosed with lymphoma in late August, I now find myself starting the “long march in a bathrobe” through the obstacle course of treatment, which so far, has frankly […]
Per custom, we say soup is good for the soul, probably only because it’s alliterative. Really, I think ice cream may be just as good for the soul. Ice cream cake, even better. Serendipitous. Or ice cream sandwiches made with madeleine cookies. Also a cup of Nana mint tea served in a funky teacup your […]
Fourth of July this year has been a scorcher. Who better to roast with than friends and family? Thankfully, we anticipated the relentless burn of global warming on New Orleans and this year acquired, just in time, a commercial daiquiri machine, into which, all liquids must now go. One of our barbecue attendees exclaimed that […]
“A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,/ I am jealous and overwhelm’d with friendliness,/ And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.” Walt Whitman, from “The Sleepers” Mom came to visit and we made pasta and swam and ate and we ate and we […]
I’ve always wanted to go to Italy for a vacation, and in my fantasy of that trip, I would ride my bicycle through the Tuscan hillside, villa to villa, vineyard to vineyard, and I would taste one pecorino after another, sample one delicious reserve from the valleys of Val Di Chiana after another. I met […]
I cannot eat this corn salad enough times in my life. Nor can I catch too many fish in the great Gulf. Some delights in life are new each and every time. Each summer day in New Orleans is a bright sauna to step into—and gratitude in each oak tree’s shade. Grilled Salmon with Miso-Corn […]
There is no better feeling than spending a warm summer evening in stadium seats at a baseball game, except, I’ll argue, when a foul fly ball lands in your glove. I have waited for this for thirty four years! And all this, with a belly full of Moe’s BBQ. This month, Moe’s opened a new […]
“Without Love, where would you be now?” The Doobie Brothers started our 2019 Jazz Fest off with a spirit of gratitude on Thursday. It rained real hard that first day and we huddled in the tents listening to Marsalis jazz and Meschiya Lake and the Little Bighorns; then just as the Doobie Brothers were starting, […]
Well we are delighted to have a new bully in the house. Meet Fats Domino, rescue bully from the New Orleans Bulldog Rescue, the perfect partner to our rescue hound, Kermit Ruffins. Just in time for Jazz Fest we have some new sound in the house—a choir of baying and snuffle snores. With the chickens […]