Finding My Rhythm in NOLA
Walks, Flavor, and Furry Friends You don’t drive New Orleans — you walk it. That’s the first thing I learned after moving here. Back in suburban Frisco, Texas, getting anywhere meant keys, traffic, and...
Category: Observations
Honoring MLK, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Starry Navel Gazing
There are moments in your life when you have to just stop and think for a short time. Do you ever get those? It could be about times that you need to make a...
Survival of the …
Thank you to my fabulous friend Steve for finding this gem.
Thanksgiving
One of the most frequently asked questions I get at this time of year is (or has been), “how does Australia celebrate Thanksgiving?” The simple answer is that we don’t. As Wikipedia explains, Thanksgiving,...
More Naked Calendars … well almost
Will it never end? Hopefully not 🙂 The latest “Men of …” style calendar is the “Men of Mortuaries” which features funeral directors and morticians from across the U.S. So far my favorites are...
Telling it like it is … finally
For those that didn’t know: Australian Prime Minister John Howard today for the first time linked the war in Iraq to the need to safeguard the world’s oil supplies. Howard made the comments in...
Bad blogger
I’ve been a bad blogger, and not the good kind of bad blogger. Only a few more days and I’ll be able to get back to my bon-bons and blogging.
Total Eclipse of my Heart
For those that missed the eclipse last night, here are some images that others took and then compiled into a composite. Thanks to kottke.org for the heads up. Gary Turner’s Flickr T. Baatar Flickr...
Stand aside 40-year old virgin…
In an interview with the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Suze Orman has the following interaction: Are you married? I’m in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I’m on the...
